it has fupplied the wants of the province, it conftantly produces large quantities for exportation *.
Nature hath been no lefs indulgent to the fouthern part of this peninfula, which forms the dutchy of SLESWIC. Although the inland parts of this country have large tracts of heath and barren fields, yet the fertility of its coafts, its advantageous fitu- ation between the ocean and the Baltic, the number and convenience of its harbours, and the large traffic which it carries on, have enriched many of its cities, and rendered it an agreeable and flourishing province +.
What I have faid of the dutchy of Slef- wic is pretty nearly applicable to the dut- chy of HOLSTEIN. This province is in general rich, fertile, and populous. Fat
- The principal ci-
ties of Jutland are AL- "BURG, NYCOPPING, « WYBURG, AARHU- RANDERS, HOR- SENS, WARDE, RIBE, "FREDERICIA, COLD- "ING, &c." First Edit.
+SLESWIC, an an- cient and confiderable city, is the capital of the dutchy. FLENSBURG hath an extenfive commerce. FREDERICKSTADT, TONDEREN, and TONNINGEN, are cities of tolerable size." First Edit.
Lord Molesworth obferves, that this country very much refembles ENG- LAND. Another traveller has remarked, that the in- habitants are in their per- fons very like the ENG- LISH. See "Howell's Let- ters," vol. i. sect. 6. lett. 4. It feems this writer was at Rendsburg (or as he calls it Rainsburg) when the
