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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIII.
coverlets invaluable acquisitions. They vary in price
from 2Z. to 3Z. sterling.
In the month of December I attended the annual
public auction of Greenland skins, Polar bears, deer,
foxes, &c. There was no great variety, and I returned
home half devoured by fleas and by no means satisfied
with my visit.
Denmark is not at all a “ pays industriel.” I have
seen table linen made by the peasants, somewhat coarse,
but prettily fashioned; and there appears to be a cotton
manufacture at Randers in Jutland,—at least I see
Randers stuff advertised in the shop windows. Gloves of
all kinds are excellent here and most reasonable, varying
from fourteen pence to sixteen pence a pair. They
may be rat or cat skin for what I know, but everybody
here wears them, and, as they are well made and
durable, we are only too glad to follow the fashion.
The silversmiths, though not equal in richness to
those of England, are far superior in the solidity and
design of their wares to those of France and Germany.
In the private houses you meet with much plate of
antique design, and to this style of old silver they
keep; I have seen candelabras and other articles
exposed in their windows, which would not disgrace the
silversmiths of our own country.
Of the Royal China Manufactory, out of respect to
‘Pottery and Porcelain,’ I shall say little. The pate
is not equal perhaps in colour to that of Sevres and
Meissen, but the forms are pretty and the painting good,
and what I admire is that the views on the plates are
national views, and the flowers chiefly copied from the
‘ Flora Danica,’ a splendid work of some twenty volumes
on the wild flowers of Scandinavia. But the most
in
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