The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

50 SCANDINAVIA.West of the Kattegat Hills rises the culminating point of Denmark, with theEjersbavsnehdj, GOO feet high. Better known, though 30 feet lower, is the Himmelbjerg(" Heaven's Mount "), commanding-From EUnqkiobinq to Aggeron the north-west a magnificent view of theBEFORE 1863.surrounding district. At its southern foot areCofPScale 1 : 1,440,000.two large lakes formed by the Guden Aa, themost copious stream in the country, and beyondthem stretches a vast prospect of pastures,woodlands, and cultivated tracts, lakes, andhamlets, limited in the distance by the curvedcoast-line.Beyond the Lim-fiord the land again risesin hills, forming the so-called Jyshe Am, or"Back of Jylland," reaching a height of 400feet, and, like all summits of the peninsula asfar as Trave, situated much nearer to the Balticthan the ocean.The western section of Jylland, formerly avast sandy plain sloping gently seawards, hasbeen largely brought under cultivation, especiallynear the streams. But there are stillvast unreclaimed tracts resembling the NorthGerman geest, the heiden of the Drenthe andVeluwe, and the French landes—allowing, ofcourse, for differences of climate and flora.The dunes on the coast also resemble those ofGascony, only they are much less shifting andlower, the highest being no more than 110 feetabove sea-level.In the outline of its coast Jylland also resemblesthe French landes.For a distance of225 miles the shoresof the North Sea are formed,not indeed of a uniform straight line, such asthat stretching from Biarritz to the mouthof the Gironde, but of a series of lines slightlyinflected, with points of resistance at definiteintervals, each segment describing a clear geometricalcurve, as if the limits of the oceanwaves had been traced by the compass. Butinland from these regular arcs the older andless uniform coast-line may still be followed.Here also, as along the landes, the old inlets of the sea have been converted intolagoons, which the rain and streams have changed into fresh-water reservoirs,and which the alluvium is gradually filling up. They are very shallow, and