Copenhagen

T H E SURROUND ING S OF COPENHAGEN.

sters’ cottages stories are told over and over again of the tall Czar, of the gentle Czarina, and of the beautiful Princess of Wales. Palace and forest and lake are, as before, the beautiful, melancholy idyll — beloved of artists and poets and all who care for N atu re in her g en tler, sadder moods. For a more

peaceful and charm ing spo t than F red en sbo rg is hardly to be found in the world. Ferd. Bauditz. ROSKILDE. Roskilde, the form er Royal residential town of D enm ark , is situated ab o u t eighteen English m iles from Copenhagen, and the h a lf-hou r’s rail­ way jou rney there is well w orth taking. The town has abou t 6000 in ­ habitants. It has a strik­ in g situation, high on a hill, at the foot of which lies one of those F jords so frequently m entioned in Scandinavian literature.

TH E ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL

The su rro u n d in g scenery is of the soft, characteristically Danish type. It will interest the tourist to pay a visit to the little fishing qu arter at the foot of the hill. W ooded paths lead dow n to it, and everywhere w ater gushes from the springs (Kilder), to the abund an ce of which Roskilde owes its name. In the stony interior of the largest spring, the “Maglekilde", you can see the w ater w o rk ing its way up from the deep- lying rich veins at the rate of 300 gallons a minute.

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