TRAVEL IN EUROPE 275 



the very throne of God. God dwelleth in the 

 hearts of men here and now and not on " the pin- 

 nacles of the Temple." Such thoughts as these led 

 me to study the land and the people chiefly during 

 my two months* stay in Europe rather than to visit 

 historic piles of brick and stone. 



In the summer of 1878 it was at last my privi- 

 lege to study European agriculture at first hand. 

 With several Collegians I embarked on a slow 

 Dutch steamer and at the end of two weeks 

 landed in Rotterdam. I enjoyed my visit to the 

 great University of Leyden because it had been 

 built by great heroism and suffering; and to other 

 places of historic and educational interest; but 

 most of all I enjoyed a two weeks driving trip 

 through North Holland and Friesland in company 

 with Professor W. T. Hewitt who was then mak- 

 ing a study of the Friesian dialect. These two 

 provinces are largely given over to the rearing and 

 exportation of cattle and to the dairy industry. I 

 was greatly interested in the herds of black and 

 white dairy cows, especially as I had an order to 

 make some purchases. This variety of cattle, now 

 known as Holstein-Friesian, has been bred nearly 

 pure for at least five hundred years on the polders 

 (reclaimed lakes) and hence has ripened into a 



