Excerpt from The American in Holland Sentimental Rambles in the Eleven Provinces of the Netherlands

This book has been written by one who can boast no Dutch blood or ancestry. It contains the impressions, observations, studies, and sentiments of an American, who has learned to love the Dutch country and people for their solid worth.

In five journeys I have seen the Dutchman's home-land. I have rambled not hastily but leisurely, not in one or two, but in all the provinces of the Netherlands. The majority of Americans, like most British folk, visit only the two Hollands, North and South, and then see but a narrow line of landscape from the car windows. For the average tourist, the elect route is from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. Yet I confess to delightful days in such far-off places as Dokkum and Finsterwolde, Doesburg and Goes, and in such mysterious lands as Drenthe and Limburg. My hope is that my fellow countrymen will discover that in Queen Wilhelmina's realm there are nine other provinces, besides the two Hollands; yes even a North, a South, and an East as well as a narrow strip, between the two Dams, of cities near the sea.

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