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78
HADSUND.
Chap. XXXIV.
rious plains typical of North Jutland. Picture to yourself
a raging sea, all wave and battle, ferment and
locomotion, suddenly stilled by the magic wand of a magician, to
stay as it now is, never to move again, but become, after
a time, like stagnant water, covered w’ith duckweed, green,
later black from the decomposition of vegetable matter.
Such is the country we this evening drove through,
wearisome to a degree, still not uninteresting: patches
of corn, patches of heath, black soil, white sand, a
curious irregular colouring not often witnessed in
nature. Even the endless tumuli give a certain variety
to the scene, standing detached, as they always do,
against the horizon: some black, others green; one
has been just flayed, for its turf’s sake, or may be
for its heather, manufactured by the women into
brooms and carried to Aalborg market. Many and
rich are the ornaments of silver and gold which lie
interred within these ancient graves ; each year brings
them forth, and fresh objects grace the cabinets of the
Museum of Copenhagen. A gentleman at Aalborg
informed me that last year, on the property of his
brother at Buderupholm, three Danish miles south of
Aalborg, there lay in the midst of the field a large
stone always in the way of the ploughshare, so the
proprietor gave orders to the labourers to dig a hole by its
side and bury it. On moving the mass of granite they
discovered beneath three gold armlets of exquisite
workmanship, for each of which they received from the
committee at Copenhagen the full value in solid cash,
350 dollars, nearly 40Z. of our English money.
On the same estate the peasants, while engaged in
cutting turf (what a blessing these moses prove to the
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