Copenhagen

THE FREE PORT AND THE HARBOUR OF COPENHAGEN.

h e traveller visiting Copenhagen for the first time, and arriving by sea from the north, should take his seat on deck at E lsinore, where the vessel, leaving the waves of the Cattegat, passes into the smooth and sheltered waters of the Sound.

For Copenhagen, in a manner, begins where the little town of Elsinore, with its beautiful old castle of K ronborg, ends. The many villas, large and small, which are dotted along the w ind ing coast from Elsinore southwards, are nearly all inhab i­ ted in summ er by the families of wealthy Copenhagen citizens. The cannons on the ramparts of "T rekroner" stand like sentries before the city, the old fortress itself m arking the d i­ vision between the outer and the inner road-stead. Those ves­ sels which, on their way from or to the Baltic, only call at Copenhagen to get supplies of provisions or coal, ancho r in the former. The latter, where tourist steamers, yachts, and small craft lie at anchor, is sheltered by the island of Refshale on the east and the land on the west. D uring the summ er m onths quite a fleet of Royal and Imperial yachts may som e­ times be seen lying here, when the Danish K ing and Queen are visited by their illustrious relations from abroad. C on ­ spicuous am ong st these beautiful vessels are the Russian Im­ perial yachts, the “S tandard", the "P olar Star", the "C zarewna",

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