The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

COPENHAGEN. 65and a model of its kind. Here are 40,000 objects so arranged as to illustrate thehabits and customs of the generations that succeeded each other on Danish soil inprehistoric times. Under the same roof is the excellent Museum of ComparativeEthnology, founded, like the other, by Thomsen. The castle of Rosenborg, datingfrom the seventeenth century, contains miscellaneous collections, possibly lessextensive than the " Green Vaults " of Dresden, but admirably classified accordingto epochs by the celebrated Worsaae. In one of the chambers is a rich assortmentof Venetian glass. The Academy of Fine Arts is installed in the castle of"Charlottenborg, and the Observatory is the most venerable in Europe, the firststone having been laid in 1637, half a century after Tycho-Brahe had set up hisfamous TJraniberg (" Castle of the Heavens ") in the island of Hveen.Near the Exchange stands a huge cenotaph in the Egyptian style dedicated tothe memory of Thorwaldsen, and containing all his works, or copies of them,besides his various collections. In a central court is the tomb of the master, surroundedby his numerous statues. The metropolitan church is also enriched bysome pieces from the chisel of the same artist, the most illustrious citizen ofCopenhagen.Numerous learned societies have been here established, the most importantbeing the Society of Northern Antiquaries. In 187G was founded a GeographicSociety, which already numbers 850 members.One-fourth of the Danish industries are centred in the capital and its suburbs.Foundries, refineries, spinning-mills, porcelain works, potteries, ship-building andoutfitting yards cover vast spaces near the harbour and several other quarters.Over half of the trade and shipping of the state belongs to this port, although itowns scarcely more than one-fourth of the Danish commercial navy. It is thecentre of the steam traffic and of the northern telegraph system, with nearly5,000 miles of wire connecting it with England, France, and, through Russia andSiberia, with Japan.The island of Amager has been converted into a garden by its inhabitants,a Dutch colony settled here in 1514, and pleasant villas, parks, and gardensextend along the shores of the Sound all the way to the Klampenborg baths andthe Jaegersborg woods. But the finest estates and country seats are found in theinterior of Sjalland—amongst them the castle of Frederiksborg, near Milk rod, the" Danish Versailles," erected in the seventeenth century by Christian IV., andnow connected by rail with the capital. On the same line is Fredensborg, a royalsummer residence built in the beginning of the century by Frederic V., and notedfor its fine woodlands and numerous statues by Wiedewelt, predecessor ofThorwaldsen.The huge square castle of Kronhorg stands on a neck of land projecting intothe Sound at its narrowest part, as if to connect the Danish Mehingbr (Elsinore)with the Swedish Helsingborg. It was erected in the fifteenth century on thesite of the castle of Orekrog, which itself had taken the place of the still olderFlinderborg. In its underground vaults here sleeps traditionally the hero Holger