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Title: The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846 Wallace, William, 1768-1843 Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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proach close to the southern point of the Scandinavian peninsula,bounding the great interior sea of the Baltic. She commands the only channel by whichthe countries around this sea can transmit their products to the rest of Europe; a circum-stance which gives her some consideration as a maritime state, at the same time that the tollshe imposes on ships passing and repassing the Sound, is productive of revenue. The Danishpeninsula is termed Jutland; and the islands in the interior of the Baltic, interposed be-tween Jutland and Scandinavia, are Zealand, Funen, Odensce, and a few others of smallernote. Denmark holds also the German territories of Sleswick and Ilolstein ; with Iceland,tlie Faroe Islands, and some settlements on the coast of Greenland, remnants of her formermaritime power. The extent of the dominions of a country broken into such a variety of detached portionscan with difficulty be estimated. The only compact mass consists of Jutland, Sleswick, 404 MAP OF DENMARK- Fig. 223.
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0 lou^tude East 10 fani Green.vicb 11 Boor I. DENMARK. 465 and Holstein; bounded on the west and north by the North Sea or German Ocean ; on theeast by the sounds which form the entrance of the Baltic; on the south by the Elbe. Thistract lies generally between 53i° and 575° north latitude, and 8° and 11° east longitude.We have thus a length of 280 miles, and a breadth of 120. The total area of the Danishmonarchy, is about 22,000 square miles. The surface of Denmark is nearly flat; forming, witli the exception of Holland, the lowestpart of the great plain of Northern Germany. The islands, in particular, in many places,rise only a few feet above the level of the sea. The soil, as in the rest of this plain, is fre-quently sandy and marsiiy ; the climate humid, tliough not liable to those severe frosts whichprevail in the interior of Scandinavia. Hence it affords good pasturage, and its soil is favour-able to the growth of the coarser species of grain. The waters of Denmark consist ch

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