ZEALAND the chief of the Danish islands, is situated at the entrance of the Baltic sea, bounded by the Schagerrac sea on the north; by the Sound, which separates it from Schonen, on the east; by the Baltic sea, on the south; and by the strait called the Great Belt, which separates it from the island of Funen, on the west; being of a round figure near two hundred miles in circumference: the chief town is Copenhagen.