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TOUR THROUGH
LETTER V.
A storm. — The village of Overschie — Its miserable accommodations. — Delft. — The mischiefs of the storm. — Beauties of the road. — The Hague — Its elegant buildings. — Removal of armorial bearings. — Palace of the directory. — First chamber of representatives. — Tree of liberty. — Storks. — House in the wood. — Catalogue of pictures. — The portraits of the Stadtholder and his family not to be seen. — Gardens belonging to the House in the Wood.
November, 1800.
WE quitted Rotterdam about five in the afternoon of the 9th of November, in the treckschuyt, or passage-boat, for Delft, on our way to the Hague. The weather was unpleasant and tempestuous, but nothing indicated the furious hurricane which overtook us at the distance of a mile from Rotterdam. It resembled in violence rather the tornadoes which desolate the tropics, than an European tempest. The rage of the wind, and the
