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ferent works, from picking and sorting for the spinners, quite to weavers, who finished the working of it. Most of the people I procured from Germany and Flanders; but a few, who proved more useful to me than all the rest, from Scotland, and two or three from England. To all these people I have been forced to give great salaries, to build them fine houses, and to put up with many irregularities; but I was indefatigable in making my own people learn of them what they could perform; and the best way of doing this, I found was to give a premium to the foreigners for every hand they perfected in every branch of work. Several of these people are dead and I have not taken any pains to recruit their numbers; for my Danes are now, many of them, as expert as their masters. I have, however, very often straggling parties of Germans, who come to ask work, which I never fail giving them, and building houses immediately for them, if they continue in the mind of settling. This has in general been my conduct with every one of the fabrics except one, which has hitherto been entirely conducted and worked by native Danes; but I meditate attempting some new manufactures, for which I must have recourse to other countries for a few hands to instruct us. From the beginning of the undertaking, I found the necessity of uniting the characters of merchant and manufacturer; for had it not been for the possession of a little shipping, which supplied me with whatever materials were wanting, I should never have been able to bring my works to the height at which they are now arrived. My sloops are strong and well built, and run, without difficulty, wherever I send them, to the Baltic, to England, Scotland, Holland, France, and even to the Mediterranean; with the advantage of coming up into the heart of my town. I once had a brig of two hundred tons, but I found too much inconvenience and expence in sending such a vessel for a cargo of not more than forty or fifty tons, unless I turned trader, and lost by the business; besides, her being forced to lye in the gulph, instead of coming up to the town; so that I sold her Holland, and have found my sloops far more convenient and profitable, as with them I can always take a full cargo of whatever they are sent for. I have a Dutch  ship-carpenter, who builds them for me, and he has six Danes under him, two of whom have worked in the king's yard at Copenhagen. This establishment is not more than three years old, but I purpose to keep it regular, and even to increase it: they have built me five sloops, each of fifty tons, which have performed their business exceedingly well, and are excellent sailors. You saw two more on the stocks, both which are herring busses, built exactly on the same plan as those in Holland; with them I purpose attempting the herring fishery; for I have observed in my travels, and you certainly must have remarked the same thing, that nothing spreads more industry, or maintains so many people, as fisheries; and at the same time, the Danes make excellent ones; and I have no doubt of succeeding, as I have, though at a great expence, got three Dutch fishermen, used to their art of barrelling; if I meet with success, I shall increase the busses; and when the canal I shewed you is finished, I shall build some larger sloops, and a brig or two of an hundred tons, for carrying the product of the fishery up the streights; from whence I hope to return home loaded with salt, which, by that time, I shall have fixed a market for.
My great object is to make every part of my general plan unite to form one whole, by rendering each division of it the support of another: at first, I was forced to send out my sloops, wherever the went, empty; but as my manufactures have increased, I have sent out some loads of them, which have obtained a very food market; I have loaded others with corn, having a perpetual licence from the king for that purpose; if my fishery proceeds, I shall never be obliged to go out empty, which is a very essential object.
All these works I find have a wonderful efficacy in increasing the people on my estate. I before told you, that the town has about two thousand inhabitants in it, though not a hut was standing there three-and-twenty-years ago; my buildings increase considerably every year; I have a great number of brick and lime burners, masons, smiths, and carpenters, that do nothing else but build houses for the new comers. This work regulates all the rest for it is the first I provide cash for, being the great object of all the rest; and what sum is spared from this, I raised five-and-thirty houses last year, and the number this year will be near forty. From the applications I have received I apprehend, I shall next year build above sixty; but the expence will be so large, that I shall be forced to retard my other undertakings. You shall to-morrow see the effect, which this population has had upon my husbandry. 
We passed the evening in conversation of this fort. -- The count shewed me a map of his estate, as it was when his father loft it to him. The extent is nine English miles one way, and more than four another; but somewhat indented. It is a fine variegated country of hill and dale, with some mountains, well watered with rivers, streams, and lakes; and part of it nobly spread with exceeding fine timber. This was the description he game of it on explaining the map.
In the morning early, horses were ready for us, and the county, riding some miles from his castle, came into a track of cultivated country, all his own, at the extremity of his estate, opposite to the part on which the town is built. Here we rode through many valleys, and sides of hills, all cultivated, with great numbers of farm-houses and cottages, the inhabitants of which seemed as easy, cheerful, and happy, as if they had been resident in England instead of Denmark; they all appeared to be pleased with the presence of their lord, and I have no doubt but they esteem him as their father, as well as master. This part of my estate, said the count, addressing himself to me, was cultivated of old, and it is all that was so; I found it farmed by my father's bailiffs and villains, and the appearance it made was very uninviting, and the people extremely miserable; I arranged it