SCHLESWIG and HOLSTEIN. These Danish provinces, which have for the last three years been a scene of so much political contention, present but moderate attractions in respect to industry and commerce.
Schleswig produces corn, pulse, flax, hemp, rape-seed, hay, clover, garden vegetables, and potatoes ; and exports much agricultural pro duce, live stock, and fish. Wood is scarce, both for building and fuel. The country con tains limestone, chalk, and slate, but no metallic minerals. The chief occupations of the inhabitants are agriculture, the breeding of cattle, and the fisheries. The manufactures, though varied, are not of large extent. In the town of Schleswig there are manufactures of china, earthenware, lace, cambrics, thread, leather, sailcloth, woollens, starch, and re fined sugar.
Holstein is on the whole fertile, especially in the marsh-lands which border on the Ger man Ocean and the Elbe. The mineral pro
ducts are, in the vicinity of Oldeslohe, salt, lime, and plaster of Paris, and near the Baltic, amber; but there are no metals. The surface is in many parts strewed with boulder stones. The agricultural products are corn, pulse, potatoes, some hops, flax, and hemp. There are no manufactures that need any particular notice. The exports consist of corn, timber, horses, cattle, butter, and turf; the imports, of colonial produce, wines, and manufactures. The herring fishery, and the Greenland whale and sea fishery, are a source of considerable profit. Trade is greatly faci litated by the Holstein or Kiel Canal, made in the years 1777-1784, at the expense of above two millions and a half of dollars, to form a communication between the German Ocean and the Baltic.