This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... XI. THE LOW COUNTRIES AND THE RHINE. WE are now about to make an excursion from London, which will be quite an extensive one, embracing Holland, and Belgium, and a part of Germany. As this is to be what is called a round trip, in which we shall not stop very long in any one place, we will take with us only valises, or such baggage as we can carry in our hands. We leave London about eight o'clock in the evening, and go by train to Harwich (pronounced Harridge). If we were to make a journey at this hour in America we should not see much of the country; but in England the twilight lasts a long time, and in this season of early summer one can see to read in the open air at nine o'clock, and it is not really dark for an hour afterward, so that we can see as much of the rural scenery of the county of Essex as we choose to look at. At Harwich our train takes us directly to the steamship landing, and there we find a vessel ready to sail for Antwerp, and another for Rotterdam, and our tickets allow us to go by either way and come back by the other. We choose to visit Holland first, and so go in the direction of the signboard painted Rotterdam, and take the steamer for that place. Our trip across the German Ocean will probably be a pleasant one, for these waters are generally smooth at this season, and we shall go to our berths soon after we start, and, it is to be hoped, sleep soundly all the night. When we wake in the morning we find ourselves in the river Maas, on which the city of Rotterdam is situated. On each side of us lies the queer country of Holland, and the views we have are unlike any we have ever seen before, or are likely to see again except in this same country of the Dutch. The land is flat, and would be uninteresting, except for the fact that it is...
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