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FUNEN

Volume 9 · 58 words · 1823 Edition

or FIONIA, a considerable island in Denmark, seated in the Baltic sea, and separated from Jutland by a strait called the Lesser Belt, and from the island of Zeeland by another called the Great Belt. It is fertile in wheat and barley; and abounds in cattle, horses, game of all sorts, and fish. Odensee is the capital town.