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it is necessary to have a ticket, 'which can he procured at a trifling expense l>y an application to the Coinman- • ^ V - dant of the fortress. Indepemlant of these promenades there is a beauti­ ful walk a very short distance out of the City , along the hanks of the different lakes, . *v

T H E E N V I R O N S .

Elsinore

was formerly only a Ashing town and was called Kro- gen, hut in 1426 Erik of Pomerania, granted to it every privilege of a mercantile town. In the sixteenth Century this,town suffered many misfortunes; , it was destroyed hy the Luhcokers in the year 1522, and in 1583 the plague swept away twelve hundred of its inhabitants; hut notwithstanding these misfortunes it again rose by the wealth of its citizens., and is now in a flourishing state. ' In the middle of the sixteenth Century the English commerce to the Baltic.addcd greatly to the prosperity of this town, and in the year 1574 the foundation stone to the magnificent Castle of Cronborg, was laid by King Frederick the second, and was finished during,the reign of King Christian the fourth , as n defence against vessels entering the Sound. ,