THi; TOWN HALL, MIDDLLBURG, ONE OF THE MOST CHARMING SECULAR BUILDINGS 



IN THE NETHERLANDS 



It was begun in the sixteenth century, but was not completed until the eiehteenth. The 

 tower, wnich is i8o feet high, dates from 1507-13, and the fagade upon the market-place is 

 of the same epoch, both the work of Ant. Keldermans the Younger. This fagade is adorned 

 with twenty-four statues of counts and countesses of Holland and Zeeland. Under the 

 western end, obscured m this picture by scaffolding, is the ancient Gothic meat market. 



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