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pay their tribute to the king *. About a league diftant the oppofite fhore terminates the profpect in a very agreeable manner; and not far off, between the two banks, rifes the little ifle of WEME, famous for the obfervations of Tycho Brahe. Although the other parts of Zealand afford nothing fo ftriking as this; the eye will find enough to entertain it every where elfe. Here are vaft plains covered with a moft delightful verdure, which fprings earlier and continues longer than the fouthern nations would ima- gine. Thefe plains are interfperfed with little hills, lakes, and groves; and adorned with feveral palaces, many gentlemens feats, and a good number of cities and towns. The foil, though light and fome- what fandy, produces a great quantity of grain, particularly of oats and barley: nor is it deficient in woods and paftures. Be- fides, the fea and lakes furnish this ifland with fish in fuch abundance, as might well fupply the want of the other fruits of the earth in a country lefs fertile or lefs addicted to commerce.
But fertility is in a still more eminent degree the character of FUNEN, which is the second of the Danish isles in point of size,
- A certain toll paid by the merchant-fhips for
passing the Sound. T. † In French, Châteaux.
