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Chap. XXX.
PAPER MANUFACTORY.
27
tivated; and how in the space of a few years it had risen
to the rank of a flourishing town of fourteen hundred
inhabitants, increasing daily in wealth and prosperity.
Fourteen years have now elapsed since Mr. Drewsen,
struck by the advantageous site, on the lake side, ■with
the abundant waters of the Guden Aa, determined to
turn to account this useless stream, and establish there
a paper manufactory; he did so, and succeeded: his
paper gained the great prize both at the English
and French Exhibitions, no manufacturer having yet
equalled the glazing of the material, which is formed
by a machine of his own invention. The manufactory
stands at the entrance of the town, near the bridge which
spans the Guden Aa; beyond stands the modern
residence of Mr. Drewsen, in the midst of a fair and fruitful
garden, nowra wilderness of roses, the old-fashioned
yellow cabbage—so luxuriant in the Lion Court of the
Alhambra, but most capricious to bloom in England—the
Damask, the York and Lancaster, and the Cinnamon,
varieties long since expelled from modem English gardens.
If you fancy, because Silkeborg is the youngest town
of the Danish dominions, she has no history of her own,
no legend, you are much mistaken; on the very ground
where we now stand once proudly frowned the towers of
her castle, a stronghold of the Bishops of Aarhuus. Put
by the paper and its manufactory, and fancy yourself
carried back to the twelfth century, when Bishop Peter
Bagnsen * held the diocese of Aarhuus. For reasons
best known to liimself, he determined to build a chateau
* Died 1204. Uis mother Ingeborg was niece to Sir Asker Ryg, and
sister to the murdered cousin whom Bishop Absalon canonized. Bee
vol. i. p. 106.
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