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Chap. XVII.
ENVIRONS OF COPENHAGEN.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Environs of Copenhagen — Baths of Marienlyst — Palnatoke, the
Danish William Tell — Receding foreheads of the eighteenth century
— Elsinore — The so-called Hamlet’s tomb — The Hammer-mills —
Grave of a Scandinavian dog — Legend of the cuckoo.
ENVIRONS OF COPENHAGEN.
A bright sun and a frosty morning in January induced
us to visit the Palace of Frederiksborg, two miles
distant from Copenhagen. January is not the month usually
selected for roaming through uninhabited houses; but
I was anxious to see a portrait of Sophia Madalena,
Queen of Sweden,* of which Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager had spoken to me. How bright the country
looks on a fine frosty morning! how bracing the air!
It is quite refreshing to quit the city. We passed by the
square reservoirs of the water company, now firmly
frozen over, where myriads of small boys in sabots, with
satchels on back, were diverting themselves with the
pastime of sliding (I trust not on their way to school).
We then zigzagged off into a cross road, turned off by a
butcher’s shop—slagter-mester in Danish. He lives
next door to the carrier, who announces to the public how
daily he conveys “ parcellen ” of all sorts to and from
the town. Near the gate of the palace gardens stands
+ Wife of Gustavus III., daughter of Frederic V. and Queen Louisa ;
married the same day as Caroline Matilda, and nearly as unhappily.
VOL. I. S
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