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what this one was like. It was a comparatively high building in two storeys of red bricks, and with serrated gables, a characteristic feature in ‘danish gothic architecture; it had a square tower, which later on was surmounted with a spire. Next to the entrance door you would find, protruding from the wall a long iron bar carrying a sort of a chafing dish in which a fire was kept burning all night long; this silly illumination was the only public lightning in the town, and not until some 200 years later (1680) were regular street lamps used. Copen­ hagen was but a little town then, lying within the present boulevards, the street “Gothersgade” and the harbour; it was surrounded with moats and ramparts planted with trees, so that only the “Blue Tower” and the spires of the four churches rose above the trees.— In the course of the 16th century however, the town was very much changed. The Royal Castle was once more rebuilt and enlarged with a huge wing in 5 storeys facing the “H0j- broplads”, and under the reign of King Chr. IV. the „Blue Tower" was surmounted with a magnificent spire adorned with three golden coronets placed on a high vanestaff. Such vane- staffs are a characteristic mark of many of the buildings raised by this King; you may see them for example on the castle of “Rosenborg”, on the Royal Exchange and others of his. King Chr. IV. went particularly in for every thing con­ cerned with architecture, and as a brother in law of your King James the 1st, he took a journey to England, and met there your celebrated architect Inigo Jones. From this visit to Eng­ land date the names “Denmark Hill” ; “Denmark House”, “Copenhagen Field” and some others.