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Chap. X.
THE ROUND TOWER.
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razed to the ground at the period of his disgrace, and
on the spot a small obelisk was raised, the inscription
on which proclaimed “ shame and ignominy to the traitor
Ulfeld.” This monument was again removed (it now
lies hid somewhere in the cellars of the Scandinavian
Museum), and gave place to a butchers’ market. What
a matter-of-fact age we live in! We next proceed
towards the University, by the street in which the Post
Office is situated. Mark well that corner-house—a
wineshop from time immemorial. Here was bred and bom
the boy Schumacher, son of the proprietor, a
winevendor, later known throughout Europe as Count
Grif-fenfeld, the minister and adviser of Christian V.
Tacked on to the Church of the Trinity, erected by
Christian IV. for the University students, the Round
Tower stands before us, built by the engineer
Steen-winkel of Emden, itself intended for an observatory,
though now no longer used as such; and here, previous
to the fire of 1728, was preserved the celebrated globe
of Tycho Brahe, together with his mathematical
instruments, brought over from Germany by Prince Ulrik.
You gain the summit by a broad spiral staircase, like
that of the castle of Amboise,—no steps, an inclined
plane, along the sides of which are ranged numerous
Runic stones, recklessly removed from their original
localities. Without inscriptions to tell whence they
came, or what they signify, they stand dirty, useless,
and neglected, but are to be removed to the new
gardens of the University Library when completed.
Opposite to these Runic stones is the sepulchral slab of
Dyveke, of which I shall speak elsewhere. Up this
spiral staircase Czar Peter is said to have driven four
in hand: how he turned at the top is a mystery to me;
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