WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
blows with great ftrength and fury ; indeed fometimes fo 
violently as to fhake the houfes to the very foundation. 
For the fame reafon, thatch has been ufually preferred to 
tiles or fhingles ; but the bad effefts that have proceeded 
from this mode when fires happen, has induced the inhabi- 
tants in all their new buildings to give the preference to 
flates and tiles. The lower parts of the houfes, according to 
the cuftom of the Dutch nation, are not only uncommonly 
neat and clean in appearance, but they are really fo ; and 
the furniture is rather rich than elegant. But this is by 
no means the cafe with the bed-rooms or upper apartments ; 
which are more barely and worfe furnifhed than any I ever 
beheld : and the ftreets feem to be much upon a par 
wath them, they being rough, uneven, and unpaved. I was, 
however, upon the whole, extremely well pleafed with the 
town. Many of the houfes have a fpace flagged before the 
xloor, and others have trees planted before them, which form 
a pleafant fhade, and give pleafing novelty to the ftreets. 
The only landing place is at the eaft end of the town, 
where there is a wooden quay running fome paces into 
the fea, with feveral cranes on it, for the convenience of 
loading and unloading the fcoots that come along fide. To 
this 
