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198 A coach being procured for us, we ordered, the driver to take us to the Star in the Ness, an hotel to which we had been recommended. The house, however, was shut up, and we left it to the discretion of the coachman to conduct us to another hotel. — We could not describe to him the kind of accommodations which we wanted, and he took us to an inn which is distinguished by the singular name of the English Bible.

We could not have alighted at a worse. — The house, landlady, and servants, were dirty to the last degree; and but that they spoke English very imperfectly, and the furniture and apartments were Dutch, I could have conceived myself to be in a Wapping tavern. This was extremely disgusting to us, after the neatness and propriety to which we had been accustomed, with only one exception, the village of Overschie, since our release from ship-board.

The inns of Holland, with proper allowance for the unavoidable dirt and confusion which a succession of guests occasions, are highly to be commended for their neatness