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[Page 82]
to Helvoetsluys
& very amply with natural curiosities several things were curious his shells in particular were his cheif deligh but we were so late that we saw them but in part he told us that he thought himself inferior in that branch to name but Lymett.
at 7 we set out by torch light for Delft haven where we arrived to the admiration of all Ranks of people who lookd out of their doors & windows as if they had never seen a flambeau before here we met with Capt Bentink & his family who were going to Helvoet in a yatch belonging to the states.
16. at day light we saild & by the time I got out of bed we were in the [indecipherable] a small Canal which joins the old and the new Maes [also speltn Maas] on the banks of this lies Rhoen the Estate from which Count Bentink has his title of Graef von Rhoem by 3 o'clock we anchord of Helvoet & at six with the flood we went into the River