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[Page 68]
Rotterdam
not furnishd with springs at Rotterdam at ½ past 7.
The waggons of the dutch are contrivd a little different from ours instead of a pole or shafts by which the carriage is obligd at all events to follow the horses a crooked peice of wood is brought up from the fore axeltree to the foot of the driver who always sets upon a box as a coachman on this he rests his foot & by pressing it either on one side or the other of the waggon so that he either makes it follow the horses or guides it in one or the other side of their path just as he pleases.
After some small difficulty we fixd our residence at a [indecipherable] enough in the Marshell Gurienne & having sent our Letter of recommendation got our suppers & slept sound.
6. Mr Noseman an Arminian Clergyman to whom our letter was directed we waited upon this morn he received us with the utmost politeness & immediately began to read to us a dissertation of his wrote in order to prove that the trek