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COXE’s TRAVELS IN DENMARKe 347
now pafles through this town will be conveyed along the canal, and down the Eyder to
Tonningen, and thence by feaand up the Elbe to Hamburgh. ‘To counteract thefe ef-
feéts, profeffor Buefch has formed a plan to render the Steiknitz navigable for veffels
of burden as far as Lauenburgh. Should this project be carried into execution, the ad-
vantages arifing to the duchy of Lauenburgh, as well as to the city of Lubec, are too
evident to require an explanation.
The houfes of Lubec are built in an ancient ftyle of archite€ture, the doors being
fo large as to admit carriages into the hall, which frequently ferves for a coach-houle.
The walls of many houfes bear the date of the fifteenth century; and doubtlefs, at that
period, the town was efteemed extremely beautiful.
The quay of Lubec is on the river Trave, which falls into the fea at the diftance of
fourteen miles, and admits veffels from one hundred and fifty to two hundred tons bur-.
den, and fometimes, but rarely, three hundred. I obferved about one hundred and
twenty merchant-fhips deftined to Ruflia, Sweden, and Denmark. The trade is chiefly
a trade of commiflion, drawing from Ruflia, Sweden, and Denmark, their raw commo«
dities, and fupplying them with wines, filks, cloth, and fteel ware.
Being unwilling to quit the territory of Lubec without vifiting Travemunde, we fet
off at five in the afternoon, and at feven reached Travemunde, diftant from Lubec
about nine miles. We found a clean and comfortable inn, good accommodations, and
a civil landlord, who fpoke Englifh.
‘Travemunde, or the mouth of the Trave, is the port where the veffels trading to and
from Lubec take their ftation. We hired a boat, and rowed round the port to the
road; the port is able to contain fixty veflels, and fufficiently deep to admit thofe of two
hundred tons burden, the fame as afcend the Trave to Lubec. Men of war ride at an–
chor in the road. Our landlord procured from the pilot. a lift of the merchant-fhips
which took their departure from Travemunde in the following years :—
In 1778, nine hundred and forty-one fhips; in 1779, nine hundred and fixteen ; in
1780, eight hundred and three; in 1781, nize hundred and thirty-five; in 1782, eight
hundred and fifty-eight ; in 1783, nine hundred and fifty-one. Of thefe he conjec-
tured that one hundred and fifty belonged to Lubec, three hundred were Danifh, two: .
hundred and fifty Swedifh, one hundred Pruffian, twenty Danifh, and ten Englifh.
Travemunde is defended (if it can be called defence) by a {mall fortrefs mounting forty
guns, and containing a garrifon of fifty men.
We pafled through Ratzeburgh, a fmall fortified town, prettily fituated on an ifland
in the midft of a lake thirty miles in circumference ; the banks abrupt, and pleafantly
feathered with wood., The town partly belongs to the duchy of Mecklenburgh Strelitz,
and partly to that of Saxe Lauenburgh.. The buildings are of brick ; almoft every
houfe is fhaded with a-tree, which forms a fingular and agreeable appearance.
From the lake of Ratzebureh iffues the river Wakenitz, which joins the ‘Trave near
Lubec, and: thus: facilitates:the water-communication between Lubec and thefe parts.
The duchy of Saxe Lauenburgh belongs to the King of England, as Elector of Hanovers:
. The road«winds at a fmall diftance trom the lake of Ratzeburgh, commanding diver-
fified views of wood, water, and fields of corn-and pafture.
Near Moellen is the navigation of the Steiknitz, which unites the Elbe and the Trave.
This water-communication is formed by the two {mall rivulets, the Steiknitz and the
Devenau, the former falls into the Trave, and the latter into the Elbe at Lauenburgh ;
they: were united by a canal, cut by orderof the government of Lubec, in the fourteenth:
century, fuppofed to be the firft canal which bad double fluice-gates.. ‘The average
depth of water being only three feet and a ‘half, no heavy-laden‘veflels can pals. The
‘Ene2 watermen.
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