Saturday, July 13, 1839 Travel Journal

1839

July

Saturday 13

3 3/4

Fine morning – Fahrenheit 73° at 4 1/4 a.m. –

Off at 5 – At Quickvorn [Quickborn] at 7 10/.. – Good cultivation, grass and corn about Hamburg – Asleep –

at 5 10/..,  Stopt 10 minutes – At Quickborn, asleep – Not much of a place – Paid as might be –

Some moor about 1/2 way between Hamburg and Quickborn and ditto ditto between Quickborn and Bramstedt, nice little rather scattered picturesque town where we stopt to breakfast from 9 20/.. to 10 50/.. – coffee – little cups and milk as in England and bread and butter – 1 mark each – Nice, clean public room and nice, civil people, but as usual could not, through Gross, understand the money till a civil English speaking Dane came in, who explained to me intelligibly –

Now at 11 1/4 = 6 1/4 meilen to Kiel – 

Just as we came away, the Eilwagen Diligence arrived – 5 or 6 gentlemen had come in, one or more ladies seemed to be still in the diligence – 3 compartments or divisions as in France –

The road from Hamburg to Quickborn heavyish from much rain during last night – From Quickborn to Bramstedt, heavy and newly rubbled and very heavy –

The road from Bramstedt very good and fine fresh downlike air – Picturesque, straw-thatched (some tiled house) villages – Potatoes, buckwheat in flower – Oats – Grass – Thinnish crops, but clean, nice farming.

At 12 18/.., post at picturesque town, gable-ended – cut limes, Paris-boulevard-like, against the houses of Nieumünster –

At 1 53/.., stop, I suppose, 1/2 way – Very neat shed – Brick-building – Good road – Nice country and farming and fields, though the land naturally poor – sandy –

Now at 2 35/.., pretty green fields undulating enough wooded, like England – but naturally poor, moory, marly, peaty soil – Plenty of peat got for burning –

From Bramstedt to Kiel, very nice green Englandlike, pretty, wooded country – Neat good farmsteads – Hand book says looks flourishing – Looks as if well doing – Pretty little picturesque hamlets, each generally on its little laky water, and embordered in orchards and wood – Everywhere the wooden buildings with a charpente done in squares which are filled up with brick or plaster – Cattle and horses, and a few sheep – Rye the chief crop – Kiel in sight at 3 25/.. and its pretty fjord –

Alight at the Stadt Copenhagen at 4 40/.. –

WYAS Finding Number SH/ML/TR/12/0034