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more our choice of pleasures expands, the less deep is the stream. My friend’s good hu­ mor always lit up mine ; his jokes appeared to me the soul of wit, and his honest hospita­ lity surpassed all the refinements of polished breeding. We continued with him till Sunday, when he drove us to church. We passed Soeborg- lake, which supplies the city with water; it is conveyed through a brook to the Lake of Em- drup, whence it runs through a canal into three reservoirs near Copenhagen. This lake, how­ ever, being almost choaked up with sedge and peat, a number of gentlemen have entered into a subscription to have it drained, and a wind­ mill has been erected for the purpose. It is probable the steam engine was deemed too ex­ pensive, but I should have thought Dr. Dar­ win’s machine for raising water, would have been extremely applicable on this occasion. Great expectations are formed from the peat, which, it is said will not be cut up in many years. The alacrity with which the plan of this