Travels Of Minna And Godfrey In Many Lands Holland The Rhine Nassau And Baden

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One of three volumes of stories of Minna and Godfrey's travels through Europe.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 17 CHAPTER III. ERASMUS DELFT ADMIRAL TROMP. Next day they rose early; and after breakfast walked with their father and Aunt Ellen beyond the fine trees on the further end of the Boompjies. They passed along the Oude Haven, by the Exchange, and through several streets; and in nearly all of them was the canal bordered with trees, mostly limes, and lined on both sides with good high houses and shops. Godfrey said he had never seen such a river, it was so still and quiet. Mr. Cavendish told them the difference between the canal, made by man's hand, and the free gushing river which bursts out of the rock, and flows at its own glad will, diffusing health and blessing around. He told them that Rotterdam, that Holland generally, was swampy, marshy land, some parts of it being even lower than the sea. Without the canals, and ditches, and windmills, which served to drain the land, corn would not c grow there, man could not live there: without dykes and dams the sea would overwhelm it; and this happy prosperous country, with its industrious, domestic people, its universities, museums, and fair flower gardens, would be covered with water and sand, ?would be again the swampy morass, from which the skill and labour of man had reclaimed it. Holland, said Mr. Cavendish, has neither mountains, mines, nor forests. The Dutch have deserved the thanks of mankind for the example they have shown of what may be done, when skill and determination are united. They were at one time the chief traders in Europe; and though their commercial superiority has found a rival, they have never forfeited the high character they obtained for probity and punctuality. Minna could understand much of what Mr. Cavendish said; and what she did not, Aunt Ellen would explain to her when they got ho...