The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee: A Voyage to the Picturesque Side of Holland, from the French of Henry Havard by Annie Wood. Illustrated by Van Heemskerck Van Beest and Havard
The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee: A Voyage to the Picturesque Side of Holland, from the French of Henry Havard by Annie Wood. Illustrated by Van Heemskerck Van Beest and Havard
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... Any one can now enter the Archives, and without knowledge of ancient writing, text, or language, follow step by step the history of Friesland. Independently of these treasures, this invaluable official is the custodian of a sword said to have belonged to that terrible admiral, Peter the Long (Lange Pier). It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... Any one can now enter the Archives, and without knowledge of ancient writing, text, or language, follow step by step the history of Friesland. Independently of these treasures, this invaluable official is the custodian of a sword said to have belonged to that terrible admiral, Peter the Long (Lange Pier). It is not like that shown at Hoorn, which is simply a two-handed weapon roughly engraved, but an instrument seven feet long, such as the Swiss soldiers carried in the sixteenth century. Here, as at Hoorn, I can but repeat what I was told; but I can scarcely imagine that any admiral ever made use of such a machine, for by the slightest sweep he would have cut away most of the ropes, if not the mainmast of his ship. On leaving the archive salon we entered, or tried to enter, another room, but were prevented by the cloud of smoke it contained. When about to penetrate this apartment we could distinguish nothing a yard before us. But, thanks to the door being open, a portion of the smoke escaped and showed us seven or eight majestic municipal councillors seated at the everlasting green-baize table, who rising to receive us, did not, however, discontinue to pour forth volumes of white smoke from their long clay pipes. In the last century one could always recognise a Dutchman by his phlegmatic look and long pipe; in the meridional provinces the pipe has given place to the cigar, but the phlegm has remained. In Friesland they are still true to both; the inhabitants are, however, the most inveterate smokers in existence. When scarcely weaned they take to the pipe, and it is not certain that they do not sooner. De Paraval states that even in his day children were taught to smoke, and could be seen with pipes as large as their fathers'. To this day little...
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