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AGGER CANAL.
Chap. XLI.
CHAPTER XLI.
The Agger Canal — Food of the peasants — The girL who trod upon
bread.
AGGER CANAL.
The weather was too rough for us to return by boat;
so the boer-carriages were to drive us to the ferry
on this side of the Agger Canal. We passed by the
“North Sea,” which will soon disappear under the heavy
breakers now beating against her sides, and then over
a plain of driving sand—not above the horses’ knees,
however, otherwise it would have been insupportable
—for the space of some miles. “ I recollect,” said
one of the gentlemen who accompanied us, “ when
this sea of sand we now cross was one of the most fertile
meadows in Jutland.” The canal was at that time
closed, and the whole coast shut out from the North Sea
by a range of lofty klits ; the post-road from Agger to
Lemvig then ran by the shore’s side.*
* It was in the month of February, 1825, that a violent storm, such as
had been never known since the memory of man, broke on the western
coast of Jutland. The North Sea, raging with a fury quite unprecedented,
burst over the klits, laying them low, carrying sand and destruction over
the adjoining country, and reopened the Agger Canal, which gave
ingress to the Liimfiorde, closed upwards of two centuries. It was not,
however, until the year 1834 that the first vessel passed through into
the open sea. From that time it became more used, and, in the year
1856,1710 vessels passed through it, in and outward bound, the channel
at that time drawing eight feet of water. In consequence of the mild
winters of ’58 and ’59 the passage is now reclosing, and at present is
reduced to four feet of wrater.
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