210 Hans Brinker

before the public edifices and churches. Being clean, spacious,
well-shaded, and adorned with many elegant mansions, it
compares favorably with the finer portions of Amsterdam.. It
is kept scrupulously neat. Many of the gutters are covered
with boards that open like trap-doors; and it is supplied with
pumps surmounted with shining brass ornaments, kept scoured
and bright at the public cost. ‘The city is intersected by
numerous water-roads formed by the river Rhine, there grown
sluggish, fatigued by its long travel; but more than one hun-
dred and fifty stone bridges re-unite the dissevered streets.
The same world-renowned river, degraded from the beautiful,
free-flowing Rhine, serves as a moat around the rampart that
surrounds Leyden, and is crossed by drawbridges at the impos-
ing gateways that give
access to the city.
Fine broad prome-
nades, shaded by noble
trees, border the canals,
and add to the retired
appearance of the
houses behind, height-
ening the,eftect of scho-
lastic seclusion that
seems to pervade the
place.

Ben, as he scanned
the buildings on the

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN.

Rapenburg Canal, was
somewhat disappointed in the appearance of the great Uni-
versity of Leyden. But when he recalled its history — how,
attended with all the pomp of a grand civic display, it had