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BORNHOLM.
Chap. LII.
little commerce of her own, that of pottery—a
manufacture of terracotta — statuettes, baskets, and other
ornaments, well executed and in the best taste, such as
you see exposed for sale in the galanterie shops of
Copenhagen. Her wooden clocks, too, have a
reputation of their own: in the last century a vessel was
wrecked off the coast, and a small cuckoo clock saved
among the cargo; a hidden genius pulled it to pieces,
studied its works and movements, and before many
weeks fabricated the first clock ever known in the
island.
The English vice-consul has kindly engaged us a
’ carriage, with a coachman speaking English, saving us
a world of trouble, and at twelve we start on our
adventures.
The country is flat in the neighbourhood of Rønne,
but, like Jutland, undivided; a forest of birch and
pines runs along the sea-side, planted wisely by the
government some thirty years since, before which
period, said my coachman, the road and fields
adjoining were ruined by the flying sands, and he pointed out
to me a line of dunes running along the centre of a field
at some distance from the road. “ I recollect,” he
continued, “ when the land you see under cultivation was
worthless—now it sells in lots for as good a price as in
other localities.” We passed on our way some Swedish
peasant women in their picturesque red bodices, a
striking contrast to the sober-clad, blue-eyed, fair-haired
girls of Bornholm; they come over to dispose of their
embroideries—she-pedlars—carrying their packs across
their shoulders. If the Swedes, however, outdo the
natives in the brilliancy of their costumes, the women
of the island carry off the palm of comeliness?
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