Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jen Haines and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: The following spelling/typographical errors have been changed. p19--changed "defense" to "defence" for consistency with rest of book. p74--changed "treschkuit" to "trekschuit". p180--changed "cites" to "cities". p194--changed "tactiturn" to "taciturn". p210--changed "were" to "where" in 'the cell were (changed to where) Philip II. died;'. Other spelling, grammatical, punctuation and typographic errors have been left as in the original book. [Illustration: A Dutch Windmill.] HOLLAND. BY EDMONDO DE AMICIS, AUTHOR OF "SPAIN," "MOROCCO," ETC. TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF THE ITALIAN BY HELEN ZIMMERN. ILLUSTRATED. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA HENRY T. COATES & CO. COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY PORTER & COATES. TO PIETRO GROLIER. CONTENTS. PAGE HOLLAND 9 ZEALAND 29 ROTTERDAM 57 DELFT 131 THE HAGUE 171 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME I. Photographs taken expressly for this edition of "Holland" by Dr. CHARLES L. MITCHELL, Philadelphia. Photogravures by A.W. ELSON & CO., Boston. PAGE A DUTCH WINDMILL _Frontispiece._ DUTCH FISHING-BOATS 26 DORDRECHT--CANAL WITH CATHEDRAL IN THE DISTANCE 48 IN ROTTERDAM 64 INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE 80 ON THE MEUSE, NEAR ROTTERDAM 94 THE STEIGER, ROTTERDAM 110 THE STATUE OF TOLLENS 126 NEAR THE ARSENAL, DELFT 134 MONUMENT OF ADMIRAL VAN TROMP 140 STAIRWAY WHERE WILLIAM THE SILENT WAS ASSASSINATED IN THE PRINSENHOF, DELFT 150 REFECTORY OF THE CONVENT OF ST. AGATHA, DELFT 156 OLD DELFT 166 ON THE CANAL NEAR DELFT 174 THE BINNENHOF, THE HAGUE 184 PAUL POTTER'S BULL 198 ON THE ROAD TO SCHEVENINGEN 214 FISHERMAN'S CHILDREN, SCHEVENINGEN 228 THE MAIN DRIVE IN THE BOSCH, THE HAGUE 246 THE VYVER, THE HAGUE 262 HOLLAND.