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 fetched from Föhr, but it was so small and low, that one was obliged to go round it; it nevertheless showed their good will. The Queen was deeply affected by their having cut down their only shrub, a rose-bush, to lay over a marshy place which she had to cross.

“On our return, dinner was served on board the royal steamer, and afterwards as we sailed in a glorious sunset through this archipelago, the deck of the vessel was changed to a dancing hall: servants flew hither and thither with refreshments; sailors stood upon the paddle-boxes and took soundings, and their deep tones might be heard giving the depth of the water. The moon rose round and large, and the promontory of Amrom assumed the appearance of a snow-covered chain of Alps.”

The next day he visited the wild regions about the promontory, but our space will not admit of our giving any portions of wild and grand sea-landscape which he here describes. In the evening he returned to the royal dinner-table. It was on the above mentioned five-and-twentieth anniversary, on the 5th of September; he says,