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CHAPTER VI
ON MANY SUBJECTS
Trade—Cheese—Diamond-cutting—Bulbs—Peat—Pottery—Dutch Artists in England—Army and Navy—Standard Time.
IN a general way, the trade between the Netherlands and England consists in an exchange of agricultural and dairy products from the former, for machinery and manufactured goods from the latter. Most steamships, and practically all railway locomotives in use on the Dutch lines, are of English make. In recent years the total value of goods consigned from the United Kingdom to Holland has amounted to about £14,000,000. Of these, the
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