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SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1736.
and, besides, it is a handsome town, where I spent the night
over the booking-office writing out my observations. Ammers
fort also is a large and handsome town, surrounded by many
important tobacco plantations, the produce of which mostly
goes to Norway and Sweden. It is to be observed, besides,
that the only cereal which they sow is buckwheat. In very
many places were plantations of oaks. Otherwise there were
many uncultivated heaths and moors on the way to Ammers
fort, which are preserved in part on account of the peat.
August 17. From Naarden I came by canal-boat (treckschuyt)
to Amsterdam, where I took lodgings in the "Vergoude Leuwen,"
or the Golden Lion, not far from the Exchange. In Amster
dam I stayed until the evening of the 20th. I was at Messrs.
Clissoet and Son, and at several others. Tota civitas nihil
nisi lucrum spirabat (The whole town breathed of nothing but
gain).
August 20. I proceeded by the canal to Rotterdam, and
went on board the boat which stopped at Ter Gouwe (Gouda),
which is a handsome town.
August 21. There, that is, at Ter Gouwe (Gouda), I went
into a carriage, where there was room for six persons, and that
numbertook their places in itin a polite manner. The road thence
to Rotterdam, and also all around Amsterdam, is paved with
Dutch bricks (klinkers) and tiles, laid on their edges. Along
the road we passed many brick-kilns, and heaps of peat taken
out of moors and ditches ; this is a kind of earth which, like
bricks, is dried in the sun, and in rainy weather is covered
with mats made of sedge-grass, of which an abundance grows
here. There are no cereals planted here, but only grass for
cattle, which furnish the great quantity of cheese manu
factured here. At last I arrived at Rotterdam. where I had
to remain a whole day. A fair was being held there, where I
admired a great number of fine paintings sold by auction. To
pass away my time, as it was evening, I went to see an ex
hibition, where a man skilled in balancing himself walked on
a slack hempen rope ; he also went up a rope-ladder, and
made all sorts of evolutions on the top, and, finally, stood
there on his head, and in this position went down the ladder;
never losing his balance. I also saw a puppet-show, where
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