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an in n , w here the city o f C openhagen and the S ound b u rst on the view w ith fine effect. T o the north lie the C loth-w o rks o f B re d e , the P a p e r- M ills of Ny-Mølle and Ørholm , an d the village o f S ø lle rø d , am id A lpine scenery, a lth o u g h on a m in iatu re scale. R eturning, the trav e lle r should cross w estw ard to Dronninggaard, situ ate in wooded g rou nds on the Fure L a k e ; thence s o u th w a rd , to Frede- riksdcd , a rom antic spot betw een the F u re and B ag svæ rd L a k e s, a fav orite re so rt o f the C open­ hag eners. A b o u t two m iles to the east is So r­ g e n f r i (F ree from care), the favorite sum m er residence o f the late K ing C hristian V I I I ., an d still used as such by his w idow , the Q ueen D ow ag er C aroline Am alie. F rom Lyngby a cro ss-ro a d leads, so u th -e ast, to Jcegersborg , w h ere is a R ecru it-S ch o o l for the H u ssa rs. In the n eig h b ourho od o f Jæ g e rsb o rg is the sum m er palace " Bernstorff j ” once the residence o f the w ell-k now n M inister of th a t n am i , but, in later tim e s, p urchased and inhabited by C hristian V III. It is now the p ro p e rty o f the S tate, and w as re n te d , and used as a sum m er residence, by Sir H enry W a tk in W illiam s W y n n , late B ritish M inister a t the C ourt o f Copenhagen. H ere the road divides, the one branch leading to C openhagen by Ordrup and Chariottenlund,

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