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106 A Journey from Norwich to Colen.
We passed from hence over a large Water which hath overssow’d a great
part of the Country upon one side of it, no less than seventy two Pa-
rishes being drowned at once,the Village of Ramfdun only escaping,and
so by an old Tower called the houseos Afer^,to the Maiden Town os
Dort, or Dordrecht.
Dordracum, so called by some from Dari or Dureti forum, at present
Port* Dort, being seated in the Waves of those great Lakes made by the Afaei
and Waal, is not unaptly from its situation compared to a Swans nest,
it is reckoned the firil and chief Town of South Holland, in respedt of
its antiquity, as having served to secure Odocer in his retreat almost
eight hundred years fince, and also in respedt of its Privileges in ha-
ving the Mint here, and being the Staple for Rhenish wine and Engf'issi
Cloth.
In this Town are many fair houses and pleasant Gardens. The great.
Church is large,the Steeple 3ix Heps high; the top thereof being
made of four large Dyalls. There is also an Exchange or Place for
Merchants to meet. The Englijh have two Churches, and the French
one. The Key or Head to the water side is handsome, and the Coun-
try about very pleasant; we saw the Chamber wherein the Synod of
Dort was assem bled 1611. a large fair room; and took a collation in
the same house, in a high turret overlooking the Town and Country :
Our seats Moving round about the Table continually ; so as the diver-
sity of the prospedt made it more delightful. The great Vessels round-
bellied, which trade between Coin and this City seemed strange ; as also
the long Luyck or Z.zsgoboats; and the number of People that conti-
nually live in them. At my going away from hence I embarked in a
Velsel bound for the Issand of Watcher en, sayling by molt of the Issands
of Zealand zwX in sight of divers good Towns, as Wil/ernftadt, Zirick-
zee,Ter goes; observing in some places where the Sea had overssow’d the
Land ; and in others where the Induslry of the Inhabitants Hill keep
it out, by keeping up their banks, and thatching the Shoars of the Sea.
pr-Fne. Landed at TerWere, where there is a good Haven and Harbour for
Ships, the Walls were built in the year 1357,towards the Sea are round
towers The Piazza is long. The Scotch have had a Factory here for
above two hundred years, and the Marquifsof this Place did formerly
make one of the three States, by which Zealand was Governed. The
Abbot of St Nicholas in Middleburg representing the Ecclesiastical ju-
risdidtion, and the Towns Middleburg, Zirickze, Per Were,Flussing,
Tolen, Martins-dike, Romer/ival and Tergoes, supplying the Third :
over againsl this place where a Town had formerly sunk into the Sea,
the Steeple only remains to be seen. From hence to Middleburg the
way is Paved with Brick; as it is also from Town to Town in most pla-
ces of Holland,
Middleburg. Middleburg is the chief Town in the Issand Walachria, seated almosl
in the middle of it, being well built, large rich, and Populous, it is the
fourth Port for the Eafi-India trade : hath a large, broad Water with-
. in the Town, and a {freight cut through the Land to carry Vessels out
to Sea, the whole is very well Fortisied, the Osficers here are chosen
by strangers or Foreigners, the Churches are many and remarkable,the
new Church is of an eight-square figure with a Cupola, the Tower of
the old great Church very high, the Stadthuife with the old flatua’s
about it, the round Piazza, and many private buildings are Considera-
ble,
We passed from hence over a large Water which hath overssow’d a great
part of the Country upon one side of it, no less than seventy two Pa-
rishes being drowned at once,the Village of Ramfdun only escaping,and
so by an old Tower called the houseos Afer^,to the Maiden Town os
Dort, or Dordrecht.
Dordracum, so called by some from Dari or Dureti forum, at present
Port* Dort, being seated in the Waves of those great Lakes made by the Afaei
and Waal, is not unaptly from its situation compared to a Swans nest,
it is reckoned the firil and chief Town of South Holland, in respedt of
its antiquity, as having served to secure Odocer in his retreat almost
eight hundred years fince, and also in respedt of its Privileges in ha-
ving the Mint here, and being the Staple for Rhenish wine and Engf'issi
Cloth.
In this Town are many fair houses and pleasant Gardens. The great.
Church is large,the Steeple 3ix Heps high; the top thereof being
made of four large Dyalls. There is also an Exchange or Place for
Merchants to meet. The Englijh have two Churches, and the French
one. The Key or Head to the water side is handsome, and the Coun-
try about very pleasant; we saw the Chamber wherein the Synod of
Dort was assem bled 1611. a large fair room; and took a collation in
the same house, in a high turret overlooking the Town and Country :
Our seats Moving round about the Table continually ; so as the diver-
sity of the prospedt made it more delightful. The great Vessels round-
bellied, which trade between Coin and this City seemed strange ; as also
the long Luyck or Z.zsgoboats; and the number of People that conti-
nually live in them. At my going away from hence I embarked in a
Velsel bound for the Issand of Watcher en, sayling by molt of the Issands
of Zealand zwX in sight of divers good Towns, as Wil/ernftadt, Zirick-
zee,Ter goes; observing in some places where the Sea had overssow’d the
Land ; and in others where the Induslry of the Inhabitants Hill keep
it out, by keeping up their banks, and thatching the Shoars of the Sea.
pr-Fne. Landed at TerWere, where there is a good Haven and Harbour for
Ships, the Walls were built in the year 1357,towards the Sea are round
towers The Piazza is long. The Scotch have had a Factory here for
above two hundred years, and the Marquifsof this Place did formerly
make one of the three States, by which Zealand was Governed. The
Abbot of St Nicholas in Middleburg representing the Ecclesiastical ju-
risdidtion, and the Towns Middleburg, Zirickze, Per Were,Flussing,
Tolen, Martins-dike, Romer/ival and Tergoes, supplying the Third :
over againsl this place where a Town had formerly sunk into the Sea,
the Steeple only remains to be seen. From hence to Middleburg the
way is Paved with Brick; as it is also from Town to Town in most pla-
ces of Holland,
Middleburg. Middleburg is the chief Town in the Issand Walachria, seated almosl
in the middle of it, being well built, large rich, and Populous, it is the
fourth Port for the Eafi-India trade : hath a large, broad Water with-
. in the Town, and a {freight cut through the Land to carry Vessels out
to Sea, the whole is very well Fortisied, the Osficers here are chosen
by strangers or Foreigners, the Churches are many and remarkable,the
new Church is of an eight-square figure with a Cupola, the Tower of
the old great Church very high, the Stadthuife with the old flatua’s
about it, the round Piazza, and many private buildings are Considera-
ble,