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A TOUR IN ZEALAND IN THE YEAR 1802.

I had contracted an intimacy with a young gentleman at Copenhagen, who came from Nor­ way, to enter himself a student at our Univer­ sity ; and we proposed, in the Summer of 1802, to make an excursion into the country. We set. off in the month of June, by the West­ ern gate, close without which the glorious mo­ nument stands on the high road, in comme­ moration of the emancipation of the peasants. Four figures of white marble, emblematical of peace, plenty, content, and industry, occupy the corners of the pedestal; from the center

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