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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806Carr, John, Sir

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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806

Name: A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806
Author: Carr, John, Sir

Carr, John, Sir

Netherlands -- Description and travel; Rhine River Valley -- Description and travel

CHAPTER XV.
 Dungeons in the stadt-house: treatment of the prisoners: hall of
   justice: the torture: criminal trials: capital punishment:
   anecdote of a malefactor: the bank; its former and present state:
   popular tumult: effects of diffusive education: public fête at
   Amsterdam: dancing Dutchmen: the Beguines: ladies of Holland:
   house rent: the water of Amsterdam                                164

                              CHAPTER XVI.
 Police: fires: laws relating to debtors; ditto to bankrupts: the
   aanspreekers: singular custom: the trokenkorb: the streets:
   insalubrity of stagnant canals: societies for recovering drowned
   persons: noble conduct of the Emperor Alexander: Polish
   gratitude: Austria: the exchange: a Dutch merchant: herring
   fishery                                                           174

                              CHAPTER XVII.
 Former commerce of the Dutch: Batavia: anecdotes of national
   frugality: exchange and banking business: commercial house of
   Messrs. Hope: Jew fruit-sellers: marine school: the rasp-house:
   the work-house: the plantation: priests how supported: parish
   registers: the poor: literary societies: Felix Meritus: modern
   Dutch painters                                                    183

                             CHAPTER XVIII.
 The Dutch theatre: theatrical traffic: the rondell: singular
   village of Brock: Saardam: cottage of Peter the Great: climate,
   divisions, and population of Holland: journey to Zeyst: Dutch
   fond of coffee: small farms: picture of a Dutch peasant’s nest:
   effects of industry: palace of Soestdyke: pyramid raised in
   honour of Bonaparte: society of Herrenhuthers; their house and
   internal arrangements described                                   193

                              CHAPTER XIX.
 The mall of Utrecht: a gasconade: the Rhine: conquest of Utrecht:
   the cathedral: beautiful lines: anecdotes of distinguished
   persons born at Utrecht; the ancient inhabitants: a direction:
   the city of Arnheim: anecdote of Beck: Dutchy of Berg: Cleves:
   anecdote of Flink: a tedious form: anecdote of brown bread: the
   contrast: the reception: Bonaparte’s hatred of English            204

                               CHAPTER XX.
 Dusseldorf described; its inhabitants; the grand ducal court:
   anecdote of Murat: a double entendre: the flying bridge: Cologne:
   a contraband peep: the cathedral: a collection of gods: a bon
   mot: priestly mummery: anecdote of an archbishop of Cologne:
   anecdote of Rubens and other distinguished persons: present state
   of Cologne                                                        221

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A tour through Holland : $b along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806

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