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tain, that springs with golden apples on the Kings birthday. Here the town hall remained until 1795 in which year a terrible fire destroyed a great part of Copenhagen. Among the public buildings from the 14th century were the “Monastery of the Greyfriars” and the “Hospital of the Holy Spirit”. Some of the monastery walls still exist, and may be seen in the cellars of two houses in the “Graabr0dre Torv” formerly the monastery’s orchard; the monastery was built of the oldfashioned large red bricks, that we call “Munke- sten” ; red bricks of the present size were not used in Copen­ hagen before 1500, or so, and the yellow ones not much till after 1728. Close to the monastery lay the beforenamed hospital in the very place of the present “Church of the Holy Spirit” ; besides this hospital the town had another outside the walls named “St. Jjzfrgen’s Hospital” merely used for contagious deseases, so we see, that even in those early days, they were —at least in some respects,—more hygienic, than we generally give them credit for. The houses of the common citizens were very small at this period; they had onely one story and were built of half timber- work, or even made entirely of wood, and their roofs were generally thatched. Consequently it was a very dangerous affair, when such a house caught fire; moreover the streets were winding, very narrow, and having many rubbish-heaps, were rather difficult to pass trough.—From these heaps a most delicious odour was spread by the pigs strolling around of their own accord; after all it wouldn’t just be the thing for our noses, but the pigs—I am sure—had an absolutely ripping time in those days.