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Chap. IX.
PALACE OF CHRISTIANSBORG.
135
and ungraceful. The outer court, circular in form, is the
remains of the earlier edifice of Madalena. You can
visit the royal stables and inspect the white horses, true
albinos, with roseate eyes and ears, used by the King on
state occasions. When these cream-coloured horses
came into fashion I cannot say; Christian V. drove
light iron-grays, with black heads, tails, and manes. To
the right lies the splendid riding-school. This court is
muddy in winter and dusty in summer, always untidy;
it is used I believe for exercising the royal stud. The
Danes do not understand the adaptation of unoccupied
space to the ornamentation of their capital. A fountain,
however, has lately been erected in the centre, and cut
limes have been planted round the edge, which, after a
time, will take away from the deserted look of this dreary
waste, and give even the palace a more habitable
appearance.
A bridge across the Frederiksholm canal connects
the De du Chateau with the town; and, turning to
the right, we arrive at the Prindsens Palais, a
handsome edifice, now the receptacle of the numerous
museums — ethnographic among the rest, the finest in
Europe; the dresses, &c., of the Greenland and northern
tribes are especially worth visiting—under the
direction of Professor Thomsen, who, with other learned
men, has apartments allotted to him within its walls.
This palace was erected for Christian VI. when Crown
Prince, and it was here that Queen Madalena must
have planned and dreamed the future magnificence
which she so well understood to put into execution.
In the adjoining Storm Gade is situated the British
church, hired or borrowed from the Moravian brothers;
and opposite to it, in the old hotel of the Counts of
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