Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie.
- McGhie, John, active 1733
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thoughts on vaccination, and the cause of its failing to afford the same protection against variola, as formerly / by John M'Ghie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![heath and bushes, of which Ihe Ilosa spiiiosisbima and Ilippopbae rhamiioides are peiliaps characteristic. Tlie Duchy mi-ht also be very distinctly divided into three belts, according to its different degrees of fertility merely, viz. :—1. An eastern or fertile belt, consisting of high and dry land on the coasts of the east sea, corresponding pretty exactly to the boulder clay belt a ready mei tioned. JI. A middle or unfertile belt, consisting chieffy of heath and sand corresponding nearly to the Boulder sand and Sand-heath belts conjoined, and III. a western or most fertile belt, consisting of the rich alluvial marshes already noticed. A great proportion of the country is covered with wood, so much so indeed that this conslitutes a characteristic feature of the whole of Denmark, which word literally signifies ac- cording to some Etymologists, ( Tamie mark) the country of fir (but according to others it is the country of the Danes). On the whole, this Duchy is very flat, and a ridge of hills, running up its centre, divides it from north to south into two large incHned planes running down on the one side to the Elbe and North Sea and on the other to the Baltic. The highest points in the whole of Denmark are, if I mistake not, the Himmelsberg (543 feet) and Bings Borg (512 feet) not much higher than the Calton Hill. Ill relerence to the picturesque features of the country a writer in a recent London periodical remarks. On the eastern side lies a lovely region of gentle hills, crowned with beech woods and intersected with blue sparkling Fjords,on the west an extensive tract of some of the richest marsh land in the world. 'Ihe broad green strip which extends along the whole eastern shore of the north sea, forming the coasts of Holland, Hanover, Oldenburg, Holsteiu & Schleswig, is wholly the product of the fine matter brought down by the Elbe, Weser, Khine, Scheldt &e., thrown up into the banks by the action of the sea, afterwards protected by dykes and rendered productive by human labour. Between Hamburg and Gluckstadt, on the right bank of the Elbe, is tbe first of these marshes, then proceeding along the sea shore northward the marshes of Creii!])o and Wilster, then the renowned Ditmarshes and finally, crossing the Eider, the marshes of Schles- wig, which extend to Jutland, where the rich alluvial dejiosit ceases and is exchanged for barren shifting sand banks & dunes. The marshes having never been disturbed by any action from beneath, pre- sent to the eye a perfect level, striking ^ contrasting with the central ridge of volcanic origin running through the Danish pen- insula, which forms the skeleton, on which they have been de- posited. This hilly barren land, ' geest' land, as it is called by the natives, runs out into the flat marsh in tongues and promon- tories of all shapes and sizes, but is always perf ectly distinguish- able from it. Some even of the islands lying along the coast, which had been raised from the bed of the ocean before the for- mation of thealluvial soil, are half 'geest,' half marsh, and the country people have no idea that all the lands on the globe do not exhibit a similar distinction of soil, and will ask a foreigner whether his country is 'geest' or marsh. These two kinds of land present many contrasts besides those of a flat and hillv sur-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21361174_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
