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Chap. XXX.
JUTLAND LAKES.
31
Some years since an enormous pike was found dead
on the Guden Aa’s bank, together with an eagle, whose
claws were firmly imbedded in his flesh. The bird had
pounced upon his prey, and the fish, unable to extricate
himself from the talons of his enemy, plunged beneath
the waters, dragging his antagonist along with him; so
they both perished, and are now preserved stuffed, as
they were found, in a private collection at Silkeborg.
A two hours’ drive brings us to an old striped gaard.
An aged peasant opens wide the gate; four- skillings
is his fee. We pass through, leave the carriage on a
plateau by the forest side strewed with paper and burnt
ashes, relics of the students’ picnic, and then in two
minutes’ time we stand upon the Himmelbjerg, five
hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea—a mere
molehill to Alpine travellers, but here equal to as many
thousands in a highland range.
Juue 20th.—These Jutland lakes are strung like birds’
eggs on a thread, connected by one continuous stream,
the Guden Aa, up whose placid waters in days gone
by many a viking has sailed his victorious craft, laden
with the spoils of England, Gaul, and Italy; and
in these more peaceful days steamboats, bearing the
red-cross flag, will ply from Banders upwards, when
»Silkeborg has become, as all men prophesy she will, the
Birmingham of Jutland, bearing this time not plundered
riches, but the produce of honesty, industry, and
enterprise.
The otter will then be chased from his lair; he now
abounds, and along the banks you may mark his track.
Salmon, too—so plentiful, that by law no servant of
Banders town can be fed with its flesh more than once
a week—will soon disappear. The banks of the Guden
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