The  country  was  pleasant  and  fruitful,  groves  of
wood,  fields  of  corn,  pastures,  brooks,  and  meadows
adorning  it:  it  is  an  open  champaign;  few  hedges,
but  some  little  ones  made  with  dry  wood,  hke  our
hurdles,  for  fencing  their  gardens  and  dividing  their
corn-grounds.   The  way  was  exceeding  bad,  especially


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for  this  time  of  the  year,  fiill  of  deep  holes  and
sloughs  in  some  places  and  of  great  stones  in  others.
This  Duchy  of  Holstein  seems  to  take  its  name  from
holty  which,  with  them  and  in  Sweden  and  with  us,
signifies  wood,  and  stein,  which  is  a  stone ;  and  this
country  is  very  full  of  wood  and  stone;  yet  is  it
fruitful,  and,  Uke  England,  dehghtful  to  the  view,  but
it  is  not  so  full  of  towns,  there  not  being  one  in  the
way  between  Liibeck  and  this  night's  quarter,  which  is
five  German,  twenty  English,  miles.  But  a  few  small
houses  he  scattered  by  the  way  \  and  about  four  miles
from  Kettell,  this  night's  lodging  was  a  fair  brick
house  by  the  side  of  a  large  pond,  which  is  the  house
belonging  to  Liibeck,  where  they  offered  Whitelocke
to  be  entertained,  and  he  found  cause  afterwards  to
repent  his  not  accepting  their  courtesy.
