be necessary on the part of
the instructors. The next day was Sunday, and it was doubly a season
of rest. The breeze was fair, but very light, so that the squadron
made only about four knots an hour; but on Monday morning she was
fairly in the Sound, which is about three miles in width. On the left
was the town of Helsingborg, in Sweden, and on the right Kronberg
Castle, with Elsinore, on a kind of land-locked basin, behind it. The
vessels continued on their course, keeping within a short distance of
the shore, so that those on board could distinctly see the towns and
villages. The houses were neat, with red roofs, each one having its
little garden. There were plenty of groves and forests, and the trees
were oaks and beeches, instead of pines and firs which the voyagers
had seen in Norway and Sweden. The country was flat, with nothing like
a hill to be seen.

The breeze freshening, the squadron hastened its pace, and in the
middle of the forenoon the spires of Copenhagen were in plain sight.
Off in the water were several detached forts, built on small islands.
The Young America led the way, and soon dropped her anchor off the
citadel of Frederikshavn, and near the landing-place, where a crowd of
small steamers were lying at the wharf.

"Have you been here before, Dr. Winstock?" asked Captain Lincoln, as
he saw the surgeon examining the aspect of the city.

"Yes; several years ago. I have been in every country in Europe."

"Copenhagen don't look just as I expected it would," added the
commander. "I thought it must be a very old, black, and musty-looking
place."

"You see that it is not,--at least not from the water; but you will
find plenty of dismal and gloomy-looking buildings in it. The fact is,
Denmark is too small a kingdom to support all the show and expense of
royalty: its palaces are too large and costly to be retained as such,
and many of them have been permitted to fall into partial decay. But I
will not anticipate Mr. Mapps' lecture, for I see the signal is
flying."

"She makes a tremendous display of forts and guns," added Lincoln,
glancing from the batteries of Trekroner and Lynetten to the
bristling guns of Frederikshavn.

"Doubtless it is a strong place, but the English have twice captured
the city. Here are the boats from the other vessels. I suppose we
shall go ashore after dinner."

The steerage was soon crowded with students, and Mr. Mapps took his
usual position at the foremast, on which a