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A Tour Through Belgium, Holland, Along the Rhine, and Through the North of France, in the Summer of 1816
A Tour Through Belgium Holland Along the Rhine and Through the North of France in the Summer of 1816 Author:James Mitchell Subtitle: In Which Is Given an Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Polity, and of the System of Education of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; With Remarks on the Fine Arts, Commerce, and Manufactures General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 Original Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown Su... more »bjects: Netherlands Rhine valley France Belgium Rhine River France, Northern Rhine River Valley History / Europe / Western History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER VI. My Dear Sir, Change of scene is necessary for happiness, and after residing long enough in a town to become familiarised with the principal objects, the mind feels prompted to go on. This induced me and my companion to take places in the Diligence for Brussels, and so at 11 o'clock we set out. Good fortune placed me directly opposite an elegantly dressed handsome young lady, going on a visit to Brussels; her femme de chambre had the place next to her, my companion sat next to me, and two Flemish gentlemen occupied the cor- , ners. There were no outside places, and the inside fare for thirty miles was seven francs. ' , The road as usual was paved like. the streets of London; a row of trees was on- each side between the pavement and the ditch; the country on each side was a dead EOAD TO BRUSSELS. 83 flat highly cultivated, and covered with the richest crops, without hedges, but richly adorned with trees. Few or no cattle were to be seen by the way. The soil is here too valuable, and they may be reared cheaper elsewhere. We had considerable amusement from the number of ...« less