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Chap. I.
ENVIRONS OF KIEL.
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I was pointed out one erected by a man whose three
wives preceded him to the grave; they proved, it
appears, no comfort to him in this world, so he caused
them to be represented among the condemned in the
Last Judgment. The third, a fat florid woman, like one
of Jaques Jordaen’s, resists most wo-manfully, kicking
and scratching the demon who is carrying her off into
the flames, her husband looking on undisturbed.
Be it brimfull of historical associations, I advise no one
to journey as far as Rendsburg.
ENVIRONS OF KIEL.
So we made many excursions in the neighbourhood
of Kiel, for the demesnes of the Holstein nobles are well
worthy of a visit. When once you quit the banks of
the fiorde and the forests, the country is void of all
beauty until you arrive at the village near which the
chateau of your destination is situated. Our first visit
was to Rastorf, the residence of Countess Rantzau, a
farmeress of note to my eyes, but not one of consequence
in these parts, the happy possessor of 480 cows, to say
nothing of sheep—red cows of a quasi-Devonshire
breed, not remarkable for beauty, but producing
admirable milk, later converted into butter, that Holstein
butter of which our London markets consume so large
a quantity. We left our carriage at a paper-mill a
mile distant, and gained the castle through the woods.
I am every day more struck with the beauty of these
Holstein forests, and imagine how lovely they must be
in early spring time, a carpet of flowers—flowers which
do exist in our English Flora, but are looked upon as
objects of rarity.
The chateaux of this duchy are all constructed on
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