Browne, Edward: A Brief Account Of Some Travels In divers Parts of Europe, Viz. [Sp.1:] Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, [Sp.2:] Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli: Through a great part of Germany, And The Low-Countries ... ; With some Observations on the Gold, Silver ... in those Parts ; As also, The Description of many Antiquities, Habits, Fortifications and Remarkable Places (London: Tooke, 1685)

A Journey from Norwich to Colon,

dun, Dinant, Namur, Lie^e, Maeftricht, Ruremond, Fenlo, and many
considerable Places, doth here fall into the Ocean, we had a very plea-
sant pallage up the River,sayling by many neat Villages, as Maefe-lluys,
Schedam, Desshaven, and handsome rowes of Trees upon the shore,
and arrived at Rotterdam about six at night. This is one of the three
chief pa slages by Sea into Holland, the other being by Flujl&ng and
the Texel. The nearest cut out of England into Hollands^ from Lai'
ftosse Point to Gravefandt, which is 28 Leagues, and the deepesl part
of the Sea is about 28 Fathoms. There lay two of the greatest Ships
Rotterdam. in Holland at that time near Rotterdam, the Crane and the Wajfenaer ;
this latter built in lieu os that in which Admiral Opdam was blown up,
fighting against his Royal Highness the Luke of sork, now King of
Great Britain, France and Ireland, &c. who thus early exposed his life
to these extream hazards for the safety of England and his other King-
doms. The Heads or Keyes between which we entred the Town by
water are handsome, and Ships of great burden are received into the
middle of divers slreets without difficulty, (their Channels being deep
and large) the houses are well built, and the Town populous, they have
an Exchange or place for Merchants to meet at, the slreets are so clean
that the Women go about in white Slippers, they being paved with
Bricks laid edgewise. The Landthuife hath a fair front. In the great
Church the Organs, the Tow’er and the Monument of De wit; upon
the Bridge the Statue of Erasmus, as also the house where he was born,
and the Pleasiire boats of the States are worth the seeing. It being
then the time of their Kermis or Fair, there were Playes a died and
many rarities shewn, as Lions, Leopards, &c. and a great noise was
made about a tall Woman to be shewn of seven foot high ; but the
Boor of Leckerkirk, not far srom this Town, was higher. Parfons and
Evans, Porters to King the firth, did alfo exceed.her, The Irijb
Youth who hath not yet done growing by divers years, iliown in ma-
ny places, is already Seven Foot and seven Inches high, but I have sel-
dom heard os any that was taller than Martin Wierjkia. Polander,who
at the age of forty two years was presented to the Emperor Maximi-
lian the second, as a rarity of nature, and was full eight soot high,
whose Picture, as big as the life, I saw, near to the Francifcans Convent
at Vienna in Au fl ria.
Delst. From Rotterdam I palled by Overfchee to Delst, by the Powder-
house, which is a handsome one, built now at some diflance from the
Town to prevent the like accident which befel when the former took
fire and blew up part os the Town. The Piazza or market-place is a
very fair one, having the front os the Town house at one end of it, and
the high Steeple of the new Church at the other. In the old Church,
Kan-Tromps Tomb is very w7ell carved upon the side of the Wall, him-
lels lying upon a Canon encompassed with Arms and trophies. In the
middle Isle of the new Church there is a noble monument, the Tomb
of William of Nasfaw Prince of Orange, together with his Wife and Son,
Prince Maurice; his Statua is in armour W7ith his Dog at his Feet, and
four Obelisks are supported by ten Marble pillars. In a house of this
Town there were shewn me in a Wall the marks of the bullets (hot at
Prince William, wzho was thereby murthered 1584. and in another
Church which was broad and spacious I saw a handsome Tomb for Sir
Charles Morgans Lady, and the Monument of Peter Hein the Admiral,
who took the Spanijh Silver-sseet, The