HOLLAND. 



83 



The country of Drent, in town* . . . 5,789 

 in the flat country 33,883 



Dutch Brabant, in the town* . . 

 in the flat country 



89,672 



. 48,711 

 . 139,466 



i .: 



The total it 810,19* in town*, and 1,070,274 in the flat 

 countrie*, "^ >t '"g- the entire population of the United 

 Provinces, in the year 1796, to be 1,830,463. The po- 

 pulation of the province of Holland a* Mated above, in 

 the year 173*. a* 980,000, and in the year 1796 it 

 was 828.543. which chews a aecreaao of 151,458 inha- 

 bitants, equal to one-thirteenth of the whole popula- 



The people of Holland may be divided into the fol- 

 clowns, or boors, who cultivate 

 the land ; the mariner*, or skippers, who navigate the 



fill the towns; the rtmletnert, or men that that also live 

 in towns, upon the rents of their estate* ; end the gen- 

 Uooncn, osactn of the army end navy, msoiotreUo. Ac. 

 The boors feed chioijr on herbs, root*, and milk. The 

 other da**** drink enormous quantities of tea and oaf. 

 fee, or, more properly speaking, of lukewarm water, 

 scarcely cooWed. A greet quantity of ipintuoui li- 



V ".< '> ,1'lkor. ..' fc-.T..-*.! \- :.! 



1 in the province of Holland. The 

 noble*, b very limited ; most uf 

 the JatBiboe having beea extingojiohed in the long wars 

 with Spam. 



* * * ' the cheroctcnstic manners and customs of the 

 1 ** people of Holland we can only mention a few. To 

 every bouae thmoMhusjt North 'Holland there are two 

 doors; one of which b never opened but when a corpse 

 or a christening b carried from the bouse, while the 

 other serves for the ordinary purposes of the family : 

 BOOMS, tlii* custom is peculiar to North Holland. The house* 

 in shnoot every part of the province have a gay appear- 

 ance, the windows and door* in general being painted 

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roopoctaw them ; not only the windows, but the whole 

 front of the housso in moot of the towns, b irorwraily 

 w or throe time* a-week. by enemes tor that 

 which are abundantly swppbrd wtth water 

 ihe oaooe core b extended to the 

 L ef the streets in which the snore opulrt. 



A Dutch bouae, in the old style ef 

 eo they are oeen in 1^ Jon tnore parti, 

 culatly. io generally u otoriea high, la. 

 which ere of an equal breadth, but of 

 from the third story the roof rise* to a 



three first of 



oo to a psoot, and the 



necessarily dimr 



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10 they afioro.ch to the top of the building. The 

 wajfjef the upper anartmeata prejrrts so 



front wall of the upper anartmonta projects so much 

 from the reef oo nearly to hide it, unlooo viewed in pro- 

 file ; owl the exterwrrf each ro^dnniniahe.. till that 



is two. thirds leas then the 



of boosting up 

 have gro- 

 the large and 



I that would grace the monoioa of a prince" have 

 no oUier views from their windows thon the dcd 



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of a warehouse, used as a magazine fur stock-fish, skins, HolUail 

 tobacco, Ac. so that the eye may turn from the works "Y"" 11 

 of Rubens and Titian to these disagreeable and dis- 

 gusting objects. 



The custom of smoking is so prevalent in Holland, smoking. 

 that a genuine Dutch boor, instead of describing the 

 distances of place* by miles or bourn, says, they are so 

 many pipes asunder. Thus, a man may reach Delft 

 from Rotterdam in four pipes ; but, if he goes on to the 

 Hague, he will smoke seven during the journey. Ad- 

 joining to their theatres U a room where refreshments 

 are to be sold, and here the lovers of tobacco resort, to 

 smoke their pipe* between the acts. Their rigid atten- 

 tion to cleanliness, and bigotted attachment to smoking, 

 jointly give rise to a most inconvenient snd disgusting 

 custom. After dinner, there is placed on the table, 

 along with the wine and glasses, a spitting-pot, which 

 b handed round as regularly as the bottle. All Duu-h- 

 roen of the lower cist set of society, and not a few in 

 the higher walks of life, carry in their pocket the whole 

 apparatus that is neceasjory for smoking : a box of enor- 

 mous sise, which frequently contain* half a pound of 

 tobacco ; a pipe of clay, or ivory, according to the fan- 

 cy or wealth of the possessor ; if the latter, he carries also 

 instrument* to ck-mn it ; a pricker to remove obstructions 

 from the tube of the pipe ; a cover of brass wire for the 



* the tobacco 

 or bottle 



tiws *4*i tuts*. w *v uiu. , w*.s vs urn mmm w ( 



bowl, to prevent the ashes, or sparks, of th 

 from flying ou(; end sometimes a tinder-box. 



of phosphorus, to procure fire in case none is at hand. 



When a woman b brought to bed, a bulletin i* daily 

 fixed to her bouse, for the spoce of a fortnight or lunger 

 if she recovers slowly, which contain* a (tatement of 

 the health of the mother and child. This bulletin is 

 fastened to a board, omanu-nU-d with lace, according 

 to the circumstances of the person lying in ; and serves 

 to aniwer the inquiries of fnrnds. a. nt unnc- 



the house. When a per* in of con- 



sequence U darjgeronslv ill, a bulletin of health is gene- 

 rally affixed to their house ; but, mile-* it i* a child-bed 

 case, the board i* not ornament d w itli lace. 



women in Holland, in general, are lovely rather ^ 

 than beautiful ; in their person* they are well t'nrmrd . 

 their complexion* are fair, and tlirir tratum regular, 

 but their countenanceo are inanimate U.,,m-n are 

 shorter- lived in HolUnd than men ; and after twenty- 

 five generally lose all their beauty. Ihe manag. 

 of children b very absurd and injudicious. The air of 

 the country b regarded as so prejudicial to them, that 

 for the first two or three month* they are never taken 

 ami, during thi* period, the windows of tht-ir 

 Intents are kept invariably .hut. Their dress con- 

 in flannel rollers, girt very tightly about their bo- 

 dies, and these roller* are farther covered with a large 

 flannel wrapper, bound three or four time* round the 

 body of the infant, and fastened with pins at its feet. 

 The use of water b rigorously denied them. Thus ma. 

 naged, they are sickly, squalid objectt Children, par- 

 ticularly females, are frequently indulged in the perni- 

 cious use of c\af'p-tAt, or stove*, without w hich a 

 Dutchwoman amid not exirt. and this add* totU-ir un- 



-ome appearance. \Vc may remark, by Uir 

 that the advance* of Britain in civiliaatiotv .m<l . 

 knowledge, are pcrhap* in no instance more decidedly 

 curiMi .in in the improved management of 



children. Many of our reader* must remember the 

 period, wlien l!r !ren were almost universally 



clothed and treated aa Dutch children itill are. 



The female drew, such aa it was generally worn in 



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