BELT

Thb Gkeat and Little, two straits of Denmark, connecting the Baltic with the Cattegat. The former runs bet we^i the islands of Zealand and Funen, and is about 15 miles in width, where it is cro ed from Nyborg, in Funen, to Corsoer, in Zealand. The greatest breadth of the strait is 20 miles. The navigation is very dangerous, on aoooimt of the many small islands and sand-banks by which the channel is impeded. The Little Belt is between the island of Funen and the coast of Jutland, and the narrowest part of the strait is not more than a mile in width. At this place stands the fortre Frederida, where the tolls were paid. The fortre commands completely the entrance from the Cattegat. The Sound, between ^Zealand and the Swedish coast, is preferred for all large ve eb entering or leaving the Baltic.