>?58 kerguelen's voyace to the north. The infurance company was formed in 1727 j it is divided into fhares of a thoufand crowns. The bank, which may be efteemed the fpring of the Danifli trade, owes its exigence to a company, which by this eftablifhment rendered a fignal fervice to the two kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. The African company was eftablifhed in 1755, to continue a branch of commerce begun by individuals : its charter, granted for forty years, allows an exclufive right to this trade from the 22® to the 36° of latitude. Hitherto the trade has been carried on chiefly with Saffy, Sallee, and Santa Cruz. The company import wool, copper, wax, and leather; it exports thither linen and woollen cloths, fpices and other commodities which Europe furniflies to Africa. The fame company exports to the Weft Indies, that is to fay, to the iflands of St. Thomas, St. John, and Santa Cruz; it is compofed of five hun- dred (hares, each of five hundred crowns. I have previoufly noticed the company which carries on exclufively the trade of Ice- land. I have a few words to fay of the manufactories. Frederic V. negledted nothing to eftablifh them in Denmark and Norway. They manufacture fail-cloth, ordinary linens, cambric, paper, tobacco, fluffs, refined fugar, earthen-ware, porcelain, alum, and foap. At Copenhagen they make lace, gold and filver fringe, all forts of jewellery, arms, mufkets for the army, blankets, and filk fluffs, ftained and painted carpets, wove ftockings, hats, and velvet. Their induftry in tanning of leather promifes them fuccefs. The gloves of Runder and Odenfu are famous ; in fhort, manufactures in- creafe and mend daily : whatever foreign merchandize can be difpenfed with is regu- larly prohibited. In Zealand and Norway are cannon and ether foundries. This is the roll of the land forces of Denmark, according to the regulation of 1763 : Horfe and foot guards - - 704 Cuirafliers - 4380 Dragoons - 2920 Huffars - ... 600 Infantry - - 20,020 Artillery - - 1158 Engineers ? » • -31 Total 29,813 Befides thefe, in Denmark and in Norway are thirty thoufand national guards, among which is a body of fkaters of fix hundred men, very dangerous enemies ; who, by means of a particular kind of fkate, get forward over the ice and fnow with incredible fwiftnefs. The king of Denmark in 1763 had twenty-fix fail of fhips, carrying from forty to ninety guns, and feven or eight frigates. The failors defigned for the royal navy are of two clafles. Thofe who dwell by the fea-fide are clafled, and their number is about twenty-five thoufand. Thefe men ferve the king in all extraordinary armaments, and almoft always in partial equipments. The fecond clafs, which is more intimately united to the royal navy, is compofed of four divifions: each divifion has its chief, and ten companies of each one hundred and eighteen men. The companies are commanded by captains of fhips, who have two fubaltern officers under them. It is in imitation of this corps that, at the end of the war, fixteen companies of foldier-failors were formed in France, under the name of the regiment of Dunkirk. This fecond clafs of failors confifts

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