Product Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALTONA AND BLANKENESE. 27 square, with a double row of thick trees, is the most remarkable street in this town, which is owned by Denmark, and is the most important place, next to Copenhagen, in that kingdom. The drive of two miles to the village of Blankenese is really delightful, owing to the numerous beautiful country seats, and the large park-like gardens which line the way. Blankenese itself lies in a picturesque situation upon the Siilberg, which being the only elevation in this neighbourhood, presents an extensive prospect of the wide-stretching plains around. The course of the Elbe can be traced, as it quietly winds its way towards the Baltic, almost as far as Cuxhaven at its mouth. This river is more than half a mile in width at Blankenese. Another very agreeable excursion is to the New Mills, a little village on the banks of the Elbe, at not more than a quarter of an hour's distance from Altona, whose entire population consists of fishermen and pilots. It is worth while to go there to acquire some idea of the Dutch neatness and daintiness, than which it is impossible to imagine any thing more attractive. The houses are prettily built and mostly of a single story, the door-handles are of shining brass, the windows bright and polished, and the About two and a quarter English miles.—Trans. white curtains hanging before them are draped with picturesque grace. I had seen many dwellings among the peasantry in Saxony that presented a neat and orderly appearance, and showed more marks of prosperity than are usually found in that class, but they could not be compared with this little village. The costume of the Vierlander women was the only one which pleased me here. They wear short, full skirts of black stuff, fine white chemises with long and very wide sleeve...