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Hague
as dinner plate &c &c at the expense of the States so that upon the whole a more convenient voiture could hardly be contrivd such the Empress of Russia ill imitated when she had a room drawn from Moscow to Petersburgh by numberless horses. This convenence which every dutchman of even moderate fortune may have for after the first expense which can not be much more than a coach a single horse draws you along at the rate of 3 miles & a little more an hour a very good dutch pace.
The Hague is certainly a most beautiful Town or village as it is calld on account of its not being Fortified the principal streets are immensely wide & in the middle have double rows of large Elms under which the foot passengers have very dry walks laid with cockle shells instead of Gravel.
The houses in these streets are large & a good deal ornamented but without any particular stile [style] of either ancient or modern