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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. X.
degraded and forlorn. It is built Of red brick and white
stone, and has some architectural pretensions.
Christian IV. sent an expedition to the East Indies, under
Ove Giedde, a nobleman of ancient family. Giedde
negociated with the King of Tanjore the cession of
Tran-quebar, where he built a citadel, and formed the only
Danish settlement in the East. He returned after three
years’ absence, with the treaty engraved upon plates
of silver. The church of St. Saviour, designed by
Christian IV., was completed during the reign of
Christian V. It took three kings to build it. With its
external spiral staircase, in the distance it tells well, but,
once approach it, an uglier brick edifice, the tower
excepted, can scarcely be conceived. The interior is vast
and lofty; it contains a splendid organ, richly carved,
supported by two elephants.* The balustrade which
surmounts the gilt-capped marble font is quaint in
conception, supported by the white marble figures of
small children, crying, laughing, praying — doing,
indeed, almost everything that little children can do—
and, unlike those of Thorvaldsen, most discreetly
dressed.
The island of Amak (Amager), on which we now stand,
was, as you have, I dare say, heard, colonized in 1516 by
Christian II., who established here a party of Dutch,
hoping, by their example, to encourage the art of
horticulture among his subjects. It has been styled with
justice the “ jardin potager ” of Copenhagen; the
inhabitants still retain the ancient costume as worn by
their Friesland forefathers.
* Here was interred Countess Viereck, with whom Frederic IV.
made his first “conscience marriage.” She died 1704. See
Frederiksborg.
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