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346 COXE’S TRAVELS IN DENMARK.
navigation of the Eyder between Rend{burgh and Tonningen, on accountof the nu-
merous fhoals occafioned by the fhifting fands, which not unfrequently render the en.
trance into the Kyder impracticable, and always prevent any veflels from pafling which
draw more than nine feet of water. Few fhips, therefore, which navigate the Baltic,
will unload their goods at Kiel, in order to embark them in fmaller veflels for Tonnin-
gen, where the merchandize muft be again reimbarked. Ships failing from the Baltic
to the Engtith or French ports will doubtlefs prefer the navigation rourd the Cattegate,
with all its dangers and difficulties. ‘Thofe deftined for Hamburgh, or the adjacent
parts, will choofe, perhaps, the fhorter and more fecure paflage of the canal. But it is
much to be doubted, whether the commerce between Hamburgh and the north will be
fufficient to anfwer the expences of the conftruction. ‘The trade of Kiel, at all events,
will be greatly increafed by this canal; but the principal depofitory of the merchandize
will be at Rendfburgh *.
Aiter having examined the canal and town of Kiel, we continued our route, and, in
eighteen miles, reached a {mall village beautifully feated between two lakes, in the midft
of a romantic country, interfperfed with forefts of beech and oak. The largeft of thefe
lakes is that of Ploen, the banks of which are adorned with the town of Ploen, the ca-
pital of the duchy, which efcheated to the King of Denmark in 1761, on the deceafe of
the laft Duke Charles without iffue male. ‘The palace, formerly the ducal refidence,
rifing in the midft of the town, on elevated ground, and overlooking the lakes a pic-
turef{que object.
The road from Ploen to Eutin runs along a fertile country, through fields of icorn
and pafture, enclofed with ‘‘ hedge-row elms and coppice green,” and beautifully in.
terfperfed with groves of oak and beech.
Eutin is a town with a palace belonging to the Prince Bifhop, in which he ufually re-
fides, and from which he affumes his title. The prefent Prince is brother to Adolphus
Frederic, late King of Sweden: it is, like Ofnabrug, a fecular bifhoprick. ‘The palace
is a large brick building, on the banks of a lake, and contains nothing worthy of obfer-
vation, except a few indifferent family pictures; among{t which I remarked one of the
Duke of Anhalt, father of the fortunate Catharine the Second, Emprefs of Ruffia,
and another of Charles, Duke of Holftein, father of the unfortunate Peter the Third.
The groundsare laid out in ftraight walks, with cut hedges, {tagnant canals, and jers
d’cau ; an intermediate plot of ground is called an Englifh garden, and confifts chiefly of
zig-zag walks, which, accorditig to the opinion. of moft foreigners, are ridiculoufly
fuppofed to form the peculiar excellence of our ftyle.
Lubec, the head of the Hanfeatic league, was formerly the moft commercial city, and:
powerful republic of the north; her fleet bade defiance to the northern powers, and
rode miftrefs of the Baltic. How are the mighty fallen! fhe no longer retains a fhadow
ot her former power, has loft great part of her trade, and her commerce, confiderably
diminifhed, will fuffer {till more diminution, if the canal of Kiel fhould anfwer the pur-
pofes for which it was planned: for by that means great part of the merchandize which
* This canal was opened in 1785, and the following is a lift of the veflels which paffed through it during
nine fucceflive years :
1785— 453 vellels, including 44 foreign. 1790— 961 vellels, including 293 foreign.
to— 400 - - 67 gi—1250 - - 476
87— 645 - iene TZiS g2z—I5c9 - - 722 :
88— 626 - - 136 93—2290 . = “1441 fs ;
ES to—1072 = - 280
5* now
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