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pipes and drink their beer in the cool of the evening. Be- 
jond the trees is a gravelled road from thirty to sixty feet in 
width, terminated also on the opposite side by a second row 
of evergreens. This road is appropriated for the use of car- 
riages, horses, cattle, and, as particularly pointed out by 
proclamation, for all slaves, who are strictly prohibited from 
walking on the flagged causeway in front of the houses, as 
they are also from wearing stockings and shoes, in order that 
their naked feet may be the means of making their condition 
notorious. This trottoir or footway is at least six feet wide ; and 
as the breadth of the canals is generally the same as that of 
the carriage road, the whole width of the Batavian streets may 
be considered to run from 114 to 204 feet ; and the city is 
said to contain twenty of such streets, with canals in the 
middle, over which they reckon about thirty stone bridges. 
The trees that embellish the streets are of different kinds, but 
the most common are two species of Callopki/llnm, called by 
botanists the Inophyllum, and the Calaba, the Canarium Com- 
mune, or canary-nut tree, the G net tarda Speciosn, with its 
odoriferous flowers, and the free, elegant, and spreading 
tamarind tree. 
In the style and architectiue of the public buildings there 
is little to prai/se and much to condenin. The Dutch, both 
at home and abroad, have hitherto resisted, with an obstinacy 
which indeed on most occasions influences the conduct of 
this nation, the introduction of the Greek ai^d Romaa models 
of architecture. The large octagon church is considered b_y 
the inhabitants as a master-piece of elegance in its design, 
