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ing extremely perilous, if not utterly imprac­ ticable. A project has likewise been attempted for the erection of a third battery on the side imme­ diately opposite. Should this ever be ac­ complished, the Danish metropolis may be called the I ron C it y , as in the citadel, Freder- ickshavn, a line of formidable batteries have been raised just above the water’s edge, which, together with the ramparts, are constructed so as to cross their lire with the batteries in the sea, though the distance considered, certainly with no great effect, unless particular circum­ stances should favor the entrance of an enemy to the inner roads. New batteries have likewise been raised on the new dock-yard and all along the coast of Amack, so that if an enemy, some years hence, should attempt making any impression on Co­ penhagen by sea, would, upon the smallest com­ putation, be welcomed with upwards of 500 guns, most of which are long 36 pounders, in­ dependent of mortars that throw shells of no less than 150 pounds weight. v.