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 lady's chaufferette; the other, a lighter and softer peat (zachte turf, or lange turf, because cut in greater lengths), which is of a more fibrous character. Gouda not only makes cheese, but fashions clay into pipes of quaint shape, many of which find their way into the clubs of the “Knickerbockers,” or descendants of the Dutch in New York. Delft, early in the seventeenth century, when commercial relations were started with Japan, began by copying the blue porcelain of Seto, and “old Delft” is nowadays worth more than its weight in silver. There is in Delft the celebrated pottery known as “De Porceleijne Fles” (The Porcelain Bottle), which has existed uninterruptedly for about 250 years, and its mark is familiar to purchasers of its wares the world over. It stands in its original place, and, so to speak, under the same roof. Its artistic adviser is Heer A.