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320
MØEN.
Chap. LI.
and, what was worse still, they finished by covering us
—tumbling down upon our hats, heads, clothes, my
beard, and the ladies’ faces. Two of the moths hung
sticking to the trees, one of those brown leaf-like
species. After passing through the unleafed forest,
you suddenly turn into an open space cleared amoi^
the trees; to the left before you rises a small chalet
with a rustic kitchen, a long table and benches spread
out before it, where a decent woman and her pretty
dark-eyed daughter keep a small restaurant. We
embark in a small boat to view the klints from the
sea. They rise up white against the pure blue sky, a
range of miniature Apennines—peaks and ridges;—
how chalk ever became so convulsed, so romantic, to
me remains a mystery.
11 And the Klint Konge,” we inquire of the old
boatman, “ where does he live ? ” “ He lives there,” was
the answer, pointing to a hole under the Queen’s Stool.
He came originally from Upsala—han bar flytted—
to Stevnsklint. Why he abandoned Møen no one
can say; but it is supposed he found it dull, and
preferred the society of the Elf King, with whom he is
also confounded.
You see the range of cliffs, dazzling in their
white-ness with their trimmings of green, to full advantage
from the wide open sea; but to judge well of their
fantastic distorted forms, their sharp sugar-loafed pics,
you must follow the greenwood path on the heights
above. The highest eminence is that of the Queen’s
Stool, 450 feet above the level of the sea, a mile
Eng-lish in length to the right perhaps, and then gradually
the range of coast descends in altitude, and near the
lighthouse you again see table-ground.
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