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Title: Holland, v. 1 (of 2)

Author: Edmondo de Amicis

Translator: Helen Zimmern

Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27799]

Language: English

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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