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wife of Christian II. and sister of Charles V.
If we pass over to the provinces on the continent, we shall find new reasons to convince us, that Denmark plentifully supports its inhabitants, and is able to enrich even a numerous people. Jutland, the largest of these provinces, forms the head of that long peninsula, which is bounded by the ocean to the west, by the gulph of Categade and the Baltic to the east, and which opens a communication into Germany towards the south. From this province they carry into Norway a great part of the corn used in that kingdom; and hence are exported those thousands of head of cattle, which are every year brought into Holland and other countries. Here are also bred those Danish horses, whose beauty makes them so much sought after in all parts of Europe. If the inland parts are barren in some places, the coasts extremely abound with fish. This affords a resource so much the greater, as they increase and breed in the long bays, which run up into the country, in such a manner that almost all the inhabitants enjoy the benefit of the fishery. The gulph of Limfiorde in particular reaches almost from one sea to the other; and the fishing therein is so rich, that, after
