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HARDENBERG.
Chap. L.
knives—many unfinished, with their chippings—showing
there must have been a manufactory, and either that
the lake was once dry land, or that the ancient
Scandinavians made ducks and drakes of these weapons and
household implements, throwing them into the water.
Small boys, whose eyes are sharp and near the ground,
came off triumphant with an unpolished chisel and a
flint knife, to say nothing of chippings innumerable.
An agriculturist would rejoice in the farm-buildings of
Engestofte lately constructed—so well built, so artistic;
more spacious than required for an English
establishment, where cows are not counted by hundreds, and
housed, as well as sheep, during the winter season. In
the cow-stable the name of each beast hangs over her
stall—Jomfru Faust, Trina Smith. Twelve young
heifers were named after the planets, but Georgium
Sidus, Jupiter, and Saturn were words the Lolland
milkmaid could never accustom her tongue to.
We take leave, pass through the town of Saxkjøbing,
and on to Hardenberg, the seat of the counts of that
name — “ Hardenberg-Reventlow,” and a great deal
more.
HARDENBERG.
To Jutland and Funen we must give the palm for
their chateaux of ancient date, their long, trim allées,
their hedges, and gardens of by-gone centuries: but
to flat, fertile Lolland the prize for her fair plaisaunces.
Nothing can be more beautiful than this garden, a very
wilderness of summer flowers, losing itself in the
parklike field, backed by rich woods in the distance. Look,
too, at the castle—what a fine old moated building!—.
what a pity they have restored it “ white,” instead of
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