CHAPTER VI.

Brussels — Hotel de Ville — Laces ut the House of Everaert and Sister — St. Gudulc — Catholic Worship — The Journey to the Hague — An Importunate Custom-house Officer — Swindling practised on Travelers — Arrival at the Belle Vue Hotel —
The Town and its Inhabitants — A view of Haarlem and Leiden — The Dutch Cows — Amsterdam — The Women with their Scrubbing Brooms — A Tribute to the Sobriety of the People — An Example to our Country — A Picture Gallery —
The King’s Palace — The Throne Chair — The Canals and Docks — The Sercnaders, and the Charm of Music — A sketch of a Room at Brack's Doelen Hotel — En route to Rotterdam
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— An Incident of Travel — Located at New Bath Hotel — Old Irish Gentleman at the Dinner-table — Busy Life on the Quay — The Cathedral Church of St. Lawrence — The Fish Market — Dutch Costumes — The Meuse River — Antwerp — Table d’Hdte at Hdtel St. Antoine— The Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the Chefs d'CEuvre of Rubens — The Church of St. Andrew, containing the finest Pulpit in the Netherlands — The Church of St. Augustine, with the Painting of the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine — The Church of St. Jacques, with , the Tomb of Rubens — St. Paul’s Church — Representation of Calvary — An Old Woman at Prayer —
A Funeral Procession — The Museum and its Pictures — The Artist who Painted with his Toes — The Chimes of Bells —
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