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Things Seen in Holland
CHAPTER I
THE CHARM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Fighting the Waters—Characteristics of Three Great Cities—Attractions of Provincial Towns.
FIRST impressions of a country and its people are, generally speaking, pleasurable; but the feelings of the traveller who sets foot on Dutch soil for the first time are also those of surprise and wonderment. Like a flash does it come through his mind that he is in a land unlike all others he has visited; that he is treading soil which has been wrested from an angry sea and overflowing rivers
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