rsday. 10. Arrived in Copenhagen at 2 P.M. Found good
accommodations at the Hotel Royal. Monday. 14. Mr. Appleton & Mary
G---- left us, for London. Tuesday. 15. In the morning went over the
new palace, not yet entirely completed. It is a fine building, the
rooms very neat, most of them carpeted. The carpet English, & upon
the king's apartments of the most ordinary & coarsest Kidderminster.
The Queen's were Brussels, but nothing extraordinary. In one large
room was the king's throne--A gilded chair covered with crimson
velvet, & his initials worked in gold upon it. The platform, & the
steps by which you ascend to it, were also covered with crimson
velvet. The window-curtains were superb--of crimson velvet & a gold
vine wrought upon the edge of them. The Queen's apartments were more
splendid than the king's. She had also a room similar to the king's,
with a throne like his & curtains the same. The dancing hall was
very fine with seven immense chandeliers in it.--The king and Queen
both had their dining halls. There was a most splendid hall for
_dubbing knights_. An immense room, with gallery all around it,
supported by pillars which appeared like white marble, but were of
some composition. The ceiling was very beautiful, white with raised
gilt figures. The chapel was very fine; also the hall of justice,
where criminals for high treason, I think, are tried. There is a
throne of crimson velvet at one end, & three silver lions, with
golden manes, as large as life & in very fierce attitudes are
guarding it.

Thursday. 17. In the morning at the museum of "Northern
Antiquities." The collection has been made since 20 years & is the
largest in Europe. We were first shown the knives, chisels, arrows,
&c., used before any metal was discovered & many--many years before
Christianity. They were all of stone. We also saw the first rude
urns which were used for the burial of dead bodies. Gold, silver &
copper were discovered before iron; when iron was discovered it was
for a long time so valuable, that we saw that instruments were made
of copper & only pointed with iron. Thus we were shown these
instruments from their first rude state till they arrived quite at
perfection. We also saw the gold rings & bracelets which the
ancients wore, & which they cut off, piece by piece, to give in
exchange fo