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I faw them drive into the FoundationSj where the Eaji~ 
India Honfe was to be enlarged ; and at another Place, 
where they were laying the Foundation of a Lutheran 
Church. 
The nobleft Strufture of all this Country^ and one of 
the fineft in Europe^ is their Stadt-houfe, built of Free- 
Fone, no Paces in Front (in which it exceeds St. Pe- 
ters Church at Rome,) and Eighty one Paces deep. At 
its very Entrance, on the Right-Hand, you fee the Hall 
where Malefaffors receive their Sentence ; the Marble 
Statues here hanging down their Heads, as if grieved 
at what was pronounced. All the Floors are covered 
with Marble, and the Roofs finely carved, painted, and 
gilt ; Atlas, bearing a Globe upon his Shoulders, (lands 
on the Top of it. The Globe is of Copper of ten 
Foot Diameter, and exceeds, as far as I ever heard 
or faw, any Ball or Globe of this Nature. That of St. 
Peter s Church at Rome, and that oi Florence, being 
lefs ; and fuch as I have feen upon any of the Turkijh 
Mofques, don’t come near this in Bignefs ; nay, the 
largeft of thofe three famous Bails at Morocco, are, ac- 
cording to the Report of thofe that have feen it, infe- 
rior to this The Exchange of Amfterdam is very fair, 
exceeding large, and frequented by an incredible Num- 
ber of People. Moft of their Churches are ftately 
Edifices. The Partition with Balliflers of Brafs in the 
new Church are truly noble ; and the Carvings of the 
Pulpit exceed the reft. 
The Tombs of Van Hulfe and Hemskerk, in the old 
Church, are very well worth a curious Traveller’s Ob- 
fervation : The laft of thefe two has rendred himfelf 
famous by his fuccefsfnl Expeditions in the Eafl-Indies, 
after their firft Settlement there, by the Way of the 
Cape of Good Hope, when they had found the North 
Pajfage by Nova Zembla impra6licable. Their Houfe 
of CorreFion is alfo worth Obfervation ; having at its 
Entrance two Lions bridled with this Infcription : 
Virtutis ejl domare ^uce cundii pavent. 
A proper Emblem for the Purpofe it was intended, viz. 
to bridle the Infolencies of fuch as are riotous in the 
Streets, or commit Diforders, and the Extravagancies of 
the Sons of Citizens, who are paft the Government of their 
Mafters and Parents. They are employed in Gaining 
their Bread by rafping Brazil Wood •, and if they re- 
fufe to perform their Task, and become incorrigible by 
Blows, they (as we were told) put them in a large Ci(l 
tern, with a Pump by them, and fo letting in the Wa- 
ter upon them, force them to work for their Life. 
Their Spin-huis is intended for the Correblion of 
young Women, fuch as live loofely, or are taken 
in the Sireets, and other fufpicious Places : Some- 
times the Citizens fend their Daughters hither for 
Chaftifement, and thefe have Chambers allotted them ; 
1 faw above an hundred Women in one large Room, 
fome of which were very well drefs’d. In the Hofpital 
for Children are 600 Orphans, well educated and look’d 
after. The Bol-huis is like our Bedlam, intended for de- 
lirious Perfons. The Gaji-huis, an Hofpital for the 
Sick ; as the Mannen-houfe is an Hofpital for old Men. 
They have befides this, a laudable Cuftom throuc^h- 
out all Holland •, which is, that upon the Appointment 
of any Meeting at a Tavern, or any other Occa- 
fion, certain Forfeitures are put into a Box kept in 
all Publick-Houfes, for the Ufe of the Poor, which 
is the Reafon that fcarce ever any Beggars are feen in 
the Streets. 
Their EaJi-lndia-Flouit contains an incredible Store 
of Spices, and other Indian Commodities. Their Ad- 
miralty Houfe, where they keep their Stores for Ship- 
ping, is furrounded with Water for its greater Security, 
and near it lie Seventy two Men of War. On the Top 
of this Houfe fas moft of Note of this City) is a Cif- 
tern tor the Reception of Rain-Water, to fupply the 
Defebl of Spring- Water, which is very fcarce. At the 
Entrance of the Gate, we faw the entire Body of a 
a Man preferved from Corruption, enclofed to the 
Wafte in a Canoe, made of Fifti-fkin, fo clofely fewed 
together, that no Water could get in. The handfomeft 
Streets of AmBerdam are, the Harleni-Street, the Cingel, 
Princes Graft, Kaifers Graft, and Heeren Graft, as al(d> 
the New ijland. Among other Rarities I faw here a 
Globe, the Workmanfhip of Vingbomes, betwixt fix and 
feven Foot Diameter ; it was all of Copper, and very 
well painted, with all the new Difcoveries made in 1641, 
at 42 Degi S. Lat. and 170 Longit. thofe towards the 
N. W. of Japan, about Noloa Zembla, the Tartarian 
Sea, beyond the Streights of Voygats, viz. New Holland, 
IVefi-Friefeland, &c. Though moft of thofe Difcoveries 
are contradided by Martiniere, who made a Voyage 
into thofe Parts in 1653, from Copenhagen, efpecially as 
to the true Pofition of Zembla, its Coherency to the 
Continent, the Length of the Streights of Voygats 
(which they make ten, but he thirty MtButch Leagues) 
and a Paflage through it into the Tartarian Ocean.- 
I had the Curiofity to take a Profped of the City 
from the Steeple of the Church, which by Reafon of 
the Unevennefs of the Houfes, did not appear altoge- 
ther lo beautiful as thofe of Italy, which are flat on the 
Top. Every Day, at Eleven a Clock in the Forenoon, 
there is very good Mufick at the Stadt-houfe, being 
the Gift of tJie Earl of Leicejter. The Chimes, of which 
there is a Sett in moft Steeples here, make alfo a very 
agreeable Harmony. 
Among other Perfons of Note, I got into the Ac- 
quaintance of Br.RuiJh, who Ihew’d memanyCurio- 
Iiuts m Anatomy fuch as the Skeletons of Children, 
and Foetus’s of all Ages, very neatly done ; the Lym- 
phatick Veflels preferved, with all the Valves •, all the 
Veflels of the Liver feparated from the flefhy Part 
many Mufcles diffeded, and whole Bodies kept entire, 
without the lead Signs of Corruption. Dr. Swammer- 
dam fhew’d me feveral of his Experiments, according 
to his Treatife Be Refpiratione, with a Colledion of 
many Infeds. Glauber, the noted Chymift, gave me a 
Sight of his Laboratory. And Elajius, famous for his 
Obfervations upon Vejlingius, gave me many Marks of 
his Civility. 
It is to be obferved, that the Jews live at Amfierdam 
in more Splendor than in any other Part of the World 
being provided with magnificent Houfes, and a very fair 
Synagogue, and have amiong them Perfons of Learn- 
ing, and endow’d with other good Qualifications ; tome 
of them having lived under the Notion of Chriftians in 
other Places. There was one Juda Leo, who had a 
Model of the Temple of Solomon, the Fort of the Tem- 
ple, the Tabernacle, and many other Curiofities of that 
Nature. I alfo faw the Ceremony of the Circumcifion 
of a J ez^ifh ChWd they thruft a Probe betwixt the 
Gians and Praputium, and dilating it fo, that both the 
inward and outward Skin be drawn forward, by a cer- 
tain Inftrument they hold the Skin clofe to the Inftru- 
ment •, the remaining Skin being put back immediately, 
the Blood flopp’d, and the Plaifter applied : All there 
prefent Tinging all the while, that the Cries of the In- 
fant may be the lefs heard. 
I pafs’d from Amfterdam to Utrecht in feven Hours, 
dn one of their Track Schuyts, or large Boats, drawn by 
Horfes, through the artificial Channels which are made 
for this Purpofe in moft of the Provinces, as well of 
Holland, as of the Low-Countries. 
4. Utrecht, Antonina, ^iktrsnTivdsUltra- 
jeBum,) the Capital City of the Province of the fame 
Name, is very large, and handfomely built. It has been 
an Epifcopal See for near thefe thoufand Years ; Its 
firft Bifliop was Willebald, an Englijhman. It was made 
an Univerfity in 1636. The great Church has three 
Steeples one above the other, from whence I took a 
full View of the adjacent Country, which is very plain, 
and fo populous, that there are no lefs than fifty one 
walled Towns, to any of which you may go in a Day’s 
Journey thence. Here is alfo an Englijh Church, in 
the Middle of which is a Pillar, the Foundation of 
which was laid upon Bulls Hides, in 1099, with the Pic- 
ture of a Bull with this Infcription : 
Accipe Pofteritas quod per tua fcecula narres, 
Laurinis cutibus fimdo folidata columna eft. 
The 
