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March - Hague
works however are not in the highest estimation.
we dind this day with the Ambassador who took us in the Evening to Court where the Princess of Orange had a drawing room at which almost all the fashionable people attended to play at Cards the rooms were monstrously crowded above 100 tables the Princess herself playd but the prince spent his evening in walking from table to table & chatting with every one.
12. Walkd to Sceveling down an avenue of near two miles in Lengh which has the steeple of that town exactly in its center here all the fishermen live who supply the Hague with fish which is caught in boats almost as round as tubs of about 30 burthen.
we returnd home by Sorgvliet the Country house of Count Bentink where I once more observd the houses in which fruit is forcd they are all built of deals laid one above another. Each house is surrounded with two walls of these about 4 inches asunder between which