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or Butter-market ; the space being proportioned to the sale 

 of an important article of commerce, and favourite commo- 

 dity of the inhabitants : 



" Leeks to the Welsh ; to Dutchmen butter's dear." 



In this arena, ail the shows of the fair were now collect- 

 ed, and they had come from several different countries, — 

 panoramas from Flanders, wax-works from Italy, dwarfs 

 and giants from Germany, tumblers, rope-dancers and ex- 

 hibitors of marionettes from Paris, and, though last, not 

 least in importance among the spectacles, John Bull, 

 with a collection of wild beasts from Exeter Change. 

 On every hand were erected temporary booths for prepa- 

 ring and selling broodyerties and waffles, which are sorts 

 of small pancakes, eaten with butter and sugar. We visit- 

 ed a panorama of the Battle of Waterloo ; and in this truly 

 Dutch representation of that memorable scene, it was amu- 

 sing (though perhaps quite excusable in the patriotic artist) 

 to find the Prinz van Oranje sustaining a much more con- 

 spicuous and important station and character than either 

 Wellington or Buonaparte. 



Having intimated, somewhat to the surprise of our 

 guide, that we would prefer to the exquisite treats of the 

 Butter-market, a sight of the Admiralty and the Dock- 

 yard, he conducted us to the Amstel-Land, where these 

 are situate. We passed a long bridge over the Amstel, 

 consisting of more than thirty arches, eleven of which are 

 of thirty feet span ; three or four, however, at this time 

 sufficed for the water-way. Immediately below the bridge 

 are several regulating sluices ; and from this circumstance 

 the bridge has got the name of the Hooge Sluis. It is con- 

 structed partly of brick, and partly of hewn-stone, and has 

 iron balustrades on each side We found none of that dif- 

 ficulty in gaining admission to the government premisses 



