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144 treckschuyt immediately proceeds. Some of these advantages may be enjoyed in common by an Englishman, but he is occasionally exposed to disagreeable circumstances in these vessels, which detract much from their advantages.

We left the Hague at three in the afternoon for Delft, having previously, which is a necessary precaution, taken places in the roof of the treckschuyt. Two ladies and a gentleman were our fellow passengers to that place, where we quitted the boat to walk through the town to a canal from whence a treckschuyt was ready to set off for Rotterdam.

The cabin of this boat, to our extreme mortification, was so crowded, that we could not obtain seats in it, and therefore we were obliged to take our places with the common passengers. It was now dark, and one miserable candle only illuminated a long apartment, which contained five-and-twenty or thirty people. On our departure, all the windows of this place were shut, to exclude the air, except that, near which we sat, which