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pearance of these is nowise prepossessing, and the clumsy 

 furniture of the interior carries back the mind to former 

 centuries. These buildings, however, were rendered inter- 

 esting to us, by the consideration, that from their attic storeys 

 did the Elzevirs, and their successors, for a long tract of 

 years, issue those " Lugduni Batavorum" editions of classical 

 works, which are to this day highly prized by the learned, 

 and by collectors. But the spirit of the Plantins seems to 

 have vanished from Antwerp, and there is no longer any 

 Elzevir at Leyden. The many ponderous volumes in the 

 Library testified the erudition of former Dutch scholars : in 

 point of fact, the greater part once belonged to Joseph Sca- 

 liger. We accidentally met with several of our young 

 countrymen, who were here studying law ; for since the 

 English acquired the Cape of Good Hope, where Dutch 

 laws are administered, it is of great importance to young 

 jurists destined for that colony, thus to acquire at once a 

 knowledge cf the Batavian code and of the Dutch language. 



By the attention of the janitor we procured access to 

 the Anatomical Theatre and Museum, situate at a little 

 distance from the College. The Dutch School had the 

 merit of being the first to make fine injections ; and here we 

 had the satisfaction of viewing the celebrated preparations 

 of Albinus, many of them still in a high state of preserva- 

 tion. 



The remains of the " trophied castle of Hengist," as it 

 has been somewhat poetically styled, or of " the Burgh," 

 as the inhabitants less ostentatiously term it, are seated on 

 a mound near the centre of the city. This has undoubt- 

 edly been the work of a remote age. The base of 

 the mound is now planted with shrubs, and with hedges 

 lining narrow spiral walks. It seems unnecessary to en- 

 large on the other antiquities of the place, of which, indeed, 

 we could only take a superficial glance. It may once for 



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