A couple of years ago Geertruida Carelsen wrote in her Berlin letters
that Muiderberg perhaps is the only bathing-place where sea and wood
are united. There are three well-known graveyards.
Of Muiden's very picturesque moated castle--the ideal castle of
a romance--Peter Cornellissen Hooft, the poet and historian, was
once custodian. It was built in the thirteenth century and restored
by Florence V., who was subsequently incarcerated there. As the
Noord-Holland guide-book sardonically remarks, "He will never have
thought that he built his own prison by it".
Chapter XIII
Around Amsterdam: North
To Marken--An _opera-bouffe_ island--Cultivated and
profitable simplicity--Broek-in-Waterland--Cow-damp--The two
doors--Gingerbread and love--Dead cities--Monnickendam--The
overturned camera--Dutch phlegm--Brabant the
quarrelsome--Edam--Holland's great churches--Edam's
roll of honour--A beard of note--A Dutch Daniel
Lambert--A virgin colossus--A ship-owner indeed--The
mermaid--Volendam--Taciturnity and tobacco--Purmerend--The
land of windmills--Zaandam--Green paint at its highest power--A
riverside inn--Peter the Great.
An excursion which every one will say is indispensable takes one to
Marken (pronounced Marriker); but I have my doubts.
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