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A tour through Holland

Chapter 1: A TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND, ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BANKS OF THE RHINE, TO THE SOUTH OF GERMANY, IN THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1806.
By Sir John Carr
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A travel narrative recounts a tour through Holland and along the Rhine, combining vivid city sketches, canal and coastal descriptions, and practical travel notes. The author records Rotterdam, Delft, and other towns, local markets, mills, churches, museums, and carillons, and offers anecdotes about painters, civic figures, and cultural customs. Observations touch on commerce, education, policing, religious life, and the visible effects of recent conflict, mixed with moral reflections and occasional humour. The sequence alternates descriptive reportage, historical and artistic digressions, and personal experience to guide and entertain prospective visitors.

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Title: A tour through Holland

along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806

Author: Sir John Carr

Release date: July 23, 2023 [eBook #71259]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: C. and A. Conrad, 1807

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A
TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND,
ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT
BANKS OF THE RHINE,
TO THE SOUTH OF
GERMANY,
IN
THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF
1806.

Pergit et hostiles (tanta est fiducia) ripas
Inconitatus adit.
Claudian.
BY SIR JOHN CARR,
OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, AUTHOR OF THE STRANGER IN IRELAND; A NORTHERN SUMMER, OR A TOUR ROUND THE BALTIC.
PHILADELPHIA:
Printed for C. and A. Conrad and Co., Samuel F. Bradford, Byrch and Small, and James Humphreys, Philadelphia: Andrews and Cummings, Boston: Peter A. Mesier, New-York, and Edmond Morford, Charleston.
FRY AND KAMMERER, PRINTERS.
1807.