visited by strangers, as being the mausoleum where Dutchmen distinguished for their valour or endowments repose. In it are monuments erected by national gratitude, to the memory of Admiral de Ruyter, of whom it is inscribed, with truth, "intaminatis sulget honoribus;" to the memory of Van Galen, an admiral who fell in a combat against the English; and among other erections to record the services of naval officers, is a monument in honour of Captain Bentinck, who died in consequence of the wounds which he received in the engagement off the Dogger Bank. Vondel, a Dutch poet who flourished in the seventeenth century, is interred here, and a handsome monument proclaims the estimation in which he is held by his countrymen. He was a voluminous writer, and few kinds of poetry escaped his pen. He lived to the great age of ninety-one years, and experienced during his life-time a poet's fate — indigence and neglect.
In the old church is an organ little inferior in size to the famous instrument of Haerlem, and almost equal to it for the power and
