The numerous gulfs which penetrate the province, tend greatly to facilitate the inland trade ; but the mouths of the different harbours are not duly cleared of the mud and sand, which are apt to accumulate, especially when the ports are situated at the entrance of rivers. The staple commodity of Jutland is grain, chiefly rye and oats, with which 500 or 600 vessels clear out annually from Aalbourg alone, for the Danish isles and Norway.
Jutland contains above 400,000 inhabitants, on a surface of above 6300 square miles. The natives of the province are not a handsome race ; but the men, though generally in-kneed, and slender limbed, are tall, and tolerably good looking. The women, who are remarkably fair-haired, are nogio handsome in proportion as the men, but uncommonly gain humoured and obliging. The dress of the lower class among them is extremely unbecoming, and tends to detract from the beauty which they do possess. "They are not only wrapped up, but literally screwed or twisted in, from the hips to the nose, in innumerable volumes of cloth and linen; and, below the waist, they are of such a tremendous bulk, that, at a distance, they look like so many hogsheads ;" (Macdonald.). The men dress much more suitably ; but
generally wear wooden shoes, of a great weight and clumsy shape, which give them a hobbling duck-like walk ; which is said greatly to increase the difficulty of drilling them in the army, and which they are apt to retain even after being accustomed to shoes and boots. Thcrc is a general appear ance of case and comfort among the peasantry ; and the price of labour is generally high, though the workmen are extremely sluggish, and do not perform two-thirds of what an English labourer would do with case. In 1809, at Aal bourg common labourers received tuo shillings a day, and tradesmen frequently five, or even six ; hut, it must be ad mitted, that a time of war may have contributed to produce this high rate of wages. The Inn:nage in the pro vince is, of course, the Danish ; hut pet its of rank and education, and, in general, all the middling classes in the larger towns, speak German, and a few understand Enghslr and French. See Playfair's Geography, vol. iii. ; Macdo nald's Travels through Denmark, vo1.1.; and Tablccru des Etats Danois, par Catteau. (q)