ppeared the map of Denmark.

"In English this country is called Denmark," said the professor; "but
it has this name in no other language. The Danes call it _Danmark_,
the adjective of which is _Danske_; and the country is also called the
_Danske Stat_, or Danish States. In German it is _Daenemark_; in
French, _Danemark_; in Italian, _Danimarca_. It is bounded on the
north by the Skager Rack, or Sleeve; on the east by the Cattegat, the
Sound, and the Baltic Sea; on the south by the Duchy of Schleswig and
the Baltic; and on the west by the North Sea. When this ship was in
Europe before, Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg belonged to Denmark;
but now they belong to Prussia, and Jutland is all that remains of
continental Denmark. This peninsula has an area of nine thousand six
hundred square miles, or about the size of the State of New Hampshire.
With the several islands, the entire area of Denmark is fourteen
thousand five hundred square miles. Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe
Islands, and several small islands in the West Indies, belong to her.
The population is nearly one million eight hundred thousand--about
equal to that of Massachusetts and New Hampshire united.

"The country is flat, or gently undulating, and the highest hill is
only five hundred and fifty feet high. The soil is sandy on the
peninsula, and not very fertile, but very rich on some of the islands.
It is indented to a remarkable degree with bays and inlets, and the
whole interior is dotted with small lakes, usually connected by a
river, like a number of eggs on a string. The Lim Fjord, which you see
in the north, formerly only extended to within a short distance of the
North Sea; but in 1825 a tempest broke through the narrow neck of
land, and opened a passage for small vessels. These inland lakes are
full of fish, and salmon was once so plenty that householders were
forbidden by law to feed their servants with this food more than once
a week.

"The two largest islands are Fuenen and Seeland, which are separated by
the Great Belt, and the former from the main land by the Little Belt.
In winter these are frozen over, as is the Sound in the severer
seasons, and have been crossed by armies engaged in military
operations. The country is well wooded, and you will find plenty
of large oaks and beeches. This morning you passed Elsinore, where
Shakespeare locates Hamlet; but you cannot find where 'the morn walks
o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill,' for there ar