Chap. Hi. through the L o w-C o U NT R i £ 
and Traffick may compare with any in 'Europe-, A£ 
that Time I look’d upon the Extent of it to be die 
fame with Venice, and confequently lefs by one half tnaii 
London, but as they Vv^ere then bulled in enclofing a 
very large Traft of Ground with a ftrong Wail and 
deep Ditch (which I hear is fince fill’d up with ftately 
Houfes) it will bid fair for being numbered 
among 
having the Liberty (after Leave ask’d from the Pro- 
feffor that prefides) to oppofe the Candidate. Each 
of thefe Profeffors have a Salary of 200 and 300 L 
per Annum allowed them. Befides the Univer- 
fity, there is a great Manufaflure ot Woollen Cloth 
fettled in this City. For the reft, the Houfes are very 
well built, with very fleep Roofs on Purpofe to call ^ r nni l- r ur > 
the Rain Water into Cifterns, wherein it is preferved thole of the firft Rank for Bignefs. The chief publicK. 
for Ufe. Its Streets are for the moft part very, broad^ Buildings here are, the Stadthoufe, a molt magnificent 
large, and ftreight, furnifli’d with Water Channels. Square Pile of BuildingSj fac’d without with Free-ftone , 
In die Night time certain Watchmen go about the Streets, the Foundation of which, as they told us^ colt 100000 L 
and making a Noife with a Rapper, tell every Hour Sterling, the Strudure being built upon 13^9 great 
what Time of Night it is. In the anatomical Theatre, Piles or Trees driven into the Ground. The Exchange 
w'e faw many Skeletons of Men and Beafts, and among a large oblong Square, f requented^ by vail Numbers or 
other Rarities, a Box, containing the Skeleton of the 
Head of an Inddan Creature, half a Stag’s, half a Hog’s- 
head ; many Leaver of the Bethle, not unlike the great 
Satyrion Leaf ; an Ant-Bear ; and in the Library, the 
Manuferipts of Jofeph Scaliger. Leyden is enclofed 
with a good Earth Wall, and a Ditch, which being 
furrounded by Rows of Lime-Trees, make very plea- 
fant Walks. 
Before we parted from Leyden, we took a Turn to a 
Village call’d Sevenhuys^ about four Leagues thence, 
to view a very pleafint Grove near it, excellently well 
all Nations. The Admiralty-Houfe, a noble Strudlure 
with fair Rooms. The Magazine and various Idof- 
pitals and Houjes of Corredfion. In this City is alfo 
a publick School, in which are kept Ledures in 
feveral Faculties, by fix Profeflbrs, efpecially in 
the Summer Time. The Jews, who are richer here 
than in any other Place, amount to twenty thoufand ; 
In this City are alfo tolerated moft other Religions (not 
excepting the Roman Caiholick) but none, except chofe 
of the eftablifii’d Religion, ace permitted to ereeft any 
Steeples, or to make ufe of Bells for the aftembling of 
ftor’d W'ith wild Fowl, fuch as Scholfers, call’d Shags the Congregation. In that ftately Strudfure, called the 
New Church, you fee a very fair Monument, eredled to 
the Memory of John van Galen, with this infeription : 
in England, being not unlike Cormorants, but fomewhat 
lefs ", we were much furprifed to fee them build upon 
T rees. Lepelders, call’d Plate<c and PelUcani by Gefner, 
fome call them Spoonbills in England. Elpacks, call’d 
Night-Ravens by ih^Germans, becaufe they always make 
a Noife in the Night Time, and Reyers or Herons. 
Befides which this Wood affords vaft Numbers of Ra- 
vens, JVood-Pidgeons and Turtle Doves. By the Way, 
we took Notice of Lyfimachia lutea fore globofo, and the 
Arum five Dracunculus growing in the Ditches. All the 
Grounds between this Village and Leyden, are low, 
fenny, and full of Pools. We faw the Country People 
hereabouts bufied in making of Turf: They rake with 
a Kind of Hoop-net, faftened to a Pole, the Mud up 
from the Bottom of a ftanding Pool, wherewith having 
laden a Boat, they throw this Mud with long Shovels 
on an even Piece of Ground, making of it a Bed of 
an equal Bignefs as near as they can guefs this, after 
it has lain long enough to dry, they tread with pieces 
faftned to their ~ 
Generofijfimo Heroi 
Johanni d Galen 
^i ob res fortiter Gd feliciter geftas, fexies uno anno Dun- 
kirkanorum preedatorum navem captam, iA a Barbaris 
opima fpolia reportata, Ordinum Claffi in Mari Mediter- 
raneo PrafeSlus, manor ab'ili preelio ad Livornam, Deo 
auxiliante, Anglorum navibus captis, fugatis, incendio et 
fubmerfione deletis, commercimn cum didti maris accolis 
reflituit, idibus Martii Anno M.DC.LIII. Et uno pede 
trauncatus, nono poA vibiqriam die, annos natus XLVIII. 
obiit, ut in Jecula per gloriam viveret. 
Jllujlrijf. PrcBpotent. Fcederati Belgii 
Ordinum decreto. 
Nob, & Pot. Senatus Archithalaf'. 
^ui ell Amjlelodatni 
M. H. P. 
of Boards faftned to their Feet, to make it clofe and 
fmooth j then they cut the whole Bed with a Spade in- The Pulpit of this Church is 
to Pieces of the Bignefs of a Brick, and pile them up Pounds Sterling, and there are 
in Stacks or Ranks, fo that one may fee through them, 
free Paffage to the Air and Wind, to dry 
to 
give 
valued at ten thoufand 
twenty four eftablifhed 
Minifters belonging to this City. 
The Government is adminifter’d here by iht Prator 
or Schout, four Burgomajiers, nine Efehevins^ and thirty 
fix Counfellors or Senators, which they call the Vroetfehap, 
The Proetor has the firft Place upon the Bench of the 
Efehevins : He is cle6ted by the Burgomajiers (with the 
Approbation of the Vroetfehap) for three Years, but 
may be continued in his Office from Time to Time : 
He is not eligible to this Dignity unlefs he has been a 
Freeman feven Years. His Bufinefs is to make Laws in 
Conjun6lion with the Burgomafters and EJehevins, to 
towards Leyden, apprehend and imprifon Criminals, and he prefides as 
Chief Juftice in civil as well as criminal Caufes j and 
with the Approbation of the Burgomajiers and Efehe- 
vins, determines all Matters before them, and pronoun- 
ces Sentence againft Criminals, and fees it put in Execu- 
tion. In other Cities, the Pr<etor'^ Concern reaches no 
farther than to apprehend and profecute Malefadors, 
The whole Number of Burgomajiers confifts of twelve^ 
but four only are regent at a Time, which is a Year: 
They muft at the Time of their EledUon be forty Years 
of Age at leaft. For every Year, the Burgomajiers 
that have been Efehevins, chufe by the Majority of 
Votes, three out of the twelve to be Regents, which 
Linen Cloth^ three feledf one out of the four that reigned the Year be- 
all North Hoi- fore, a fourth, who tenders them the Oath, and offi- 
them further, and afterwards are laid up in Barns, the 
Sides of which are made up with wooden Bars at 
fome Diftance from one another, to make them fit 
for Firing. 
Jmie 6. We continued our Journey in one of the 
Boats that go from this Place to Harlem, where we ar- 
rived in four Hours ; being a populous, ftrong and 
pleafant City •, provided with very fair Channels in fe- 
veral of its Streets : It has moft delightful natural 
Groves on that Side where it looks 
In the Garden of the Prince’s Houfe is a Summer- 
Houfe, where you fee the Pidture of Lawrence Cojler, 
in a furl’d Gown, holding the Letter A in his Hand, 
■with this Infeription over it : 
M. S. Viro Confulari, Harlemenft al- 
teri Cadmo, lA Artis Typographic^ circa Annum Do- 
mini MCCCCXXXX, Inventori primo. 
The Statue and Infeription which was on his Houfe 
in the Market-place, are no more to be feen, the Houfe 
being fold. The chief Trade in this City is in Weaving 
of Silks, Damasks, Velvets, Sattins, 
lAc. The Sea Coaft near Harlem, and 
land, are covered againft the Sea with green Downs. dates as Prefident the firft three Months. The remain- 
8. June 8. We went hence in two Hours by Boat to ing eight Burgomajiers zre employed in other great Of- 
AmJierdam,whtrQ we met at the Gate no more than two fices, fuch as Treafurers, Matters of Hofpitals, and one 
Soldiers, one without, the other within : This City, as is fent in Quality of Deputy to the Aflembly of the 
it is the biggeft of all the Low-Countries, fo for Riches States at the Hague, one for a Member of the Council 
V o L. II. Numb. 113^. 8 B of 
