Series 02: Journal of a tour in Holland, 12 February - 22 March 1773 - No. 0009

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3.

Febry 1773 - from Helveotluys [Helvoetslus] to the Hague

paying two sets of Porters.

After breakfast having sent our baggage & servants off we set out on foot for the Bril [possibly Brielle] about seven miles from Bril passing the Maes [also spelt Meuse or Maas River] in a boat to the Island of Rosenburgh we hird [hired] a cart waggon which carried us about 3 miles to another branch of the Maes over which we again ferried among a good deal of Ice & then arrivd at Maesland [indecipherable] where we again took cart waggon & three & at 6 arrivd at the Hague.

We traveld so fast this day that I cannot pretend to say any thing of the way we passed through nor much indeed of the Country as the day was foggy, in general however it appears precisely like the country between Spalding & Peterborough so flat that the Eye is bounded only by the Heavens, ditches great and small intersecting in all directions: willow trees, in general planted upon their Banks; frequent engines to throw up the water, with which however some of the Land was heavily loaded.

The towns as we passed through them seemed