prefent fills the throne is Frederic-William III. nephew to the late king, whose powers have been much humbled by the emperor of France.

Your's most affectionately.

Questions formed for the Exercife of the Pupil.

HOW was the kingdom of Poland bounded?
How was it divided?

When did the partition of Poland take place?
How much did Ruffia acquire by the event?
What did Auftria acquire by it?

What did Pruffia acquire by it?

What were the chief cities in Poland?

Where did the Poles formerly elect their kings?
By whom was Poland anciently inhabited?
How is Pruffia bounded?

How many inhabitants does it contain ?

What is the nature of the government?

What is the eftablished religion?

What are the chief cities of Pruffia?

By whom was Pruffia inhabited?

When and by what means did it become a kingdom?

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DENMARK ENMARK, lying on the north of Germany, is made up of eight islands in the Baltic Sea, befides a peninfula called Jutland, about two hundred and forty miles long, and one hundred and eighty broad, containing 63,200 fquare miles, and 3,000,000 of inhabitants.

The islands are named Zealand, Funen, Langland, Laland, Falfter, Mona, Femeren, and Alfen.

That part of the fea fituated between Zealand and Funen is called the Great Belt, and that which divides Funen from the continent is called the Little Belt.

Jutland, the peninfula, is divided into north and fouth; the north part has retained the name of Jutland, but the fouthern part, which borders upon Germany, is called the duchy of Slefwick.

The ifles and peninfula lie thus upon your

map:

Denmark is an hereditary kingdom, and governed in an abfolute manner; but the Danish kings are legal fovereigns, and perhaps the only legal fovereigns in the world; for the fenators, nobility, clergy, and commons, divefted themselves of their right, as well as power, in the year 1660, and made a formal furrender of their liberties to the then king Frederic III. Their religion is Lutheran, no other being tolerated.

The Danes, though tall and strong bodied men, have neither the courage nor vigour of their enterprifing ancestors, who were at one time mafters of England. In their fummer habits they ufually imitate the French dress: but in winter they wrap themfelves up in furs and wool, like their neighbours.,

As this is a flat country, abounding in bogs and moraffes, and furrounded by the fea, it is extremely subject to fogs and foul air, and affords a very indifferent foil; but little corn, except rye, grows here, and good pafture is very scarce.

The commodities which they export are timber, lean cattle, dry fifh, iron, naval ftores, and Eaft-India ware; for which they receive in return wine, oil, tobacco, falt, filk, woollen ftuffs, fugar, and spices.

The metropolis and refidence of his prefent Danish Majefty, CHRISTIAN VII. is Copenhagen, a large, rich, and well fortified town, where there are about ninety thousand inha bitants. It ftands on the eaftern fhore of the island of Zealand, at the distance of five hundred and forty miles north east from London. The houses in the principal ftreets are built with brick, and thofe in their-lanes chiefly with timber...

His Majefty has a country feat about twenty miles from Copenhagen, called Fredericsburg. It is a moft magnificent houfe, and well built, but ill contrived and badly fituated, being in a moist and unhealthy marsh.

Bartholinus, celebrated for his knowledge of anatomy, and Tycho-Brahe, the famous aftronomer, were natives of this country.

Territories belonging to the Crown of Denmark.

These are the cold island of Iceland in the northern feas, on which is the burning mount Hecla, a mile high, and continually covered with fnow; Greenland, not much known, and the Ferro iflands; Nova Zembla, an uninhabited country; the Land of Jeffo, in Afia,