Antwerrpl furnished rare opportunities tor
strolls through quaint old streets, and mod
ern ones lighted by electricity, along the
Scheldt and the many canals. We enjoyed It
exceedingly, and tell that on leaving it we were
prepared tor the land of canals dykes and wind
mil’s, Antwerp seemed a cross between Rotter
dam and Brussels and much more Interesting
Rian either. We left it one afternoon for the
Hague, traveling through Rotterdam and OellL
rntiione has seen Holland it is impossible to
realize how picturesque a Sat, marshy country
can be. That afternoon we journeyed through a
net work of gray-grtsa canals, enclosing bright
green fields, often many feet below the surface of
the water, we passed numerous villages all so
neat and trim looking as if they were scrubbed
daily from their red-tiled root* to the red brick
walks. Along the shaded walks by the canals,
we could see white-cappol peasant girls; and
rowing quietly from one fit-id to another, their
huge can- of brass glistening, were milk
men placidly engaged in the evening’s work. A
grayish-blue clouded scy hung over all and
lonely windmills kept guard at frequent Irregular
intervals. It was ia facta realization of the many
paintings by Bo lighten, which had severs’, times
attracted my attention in the Royal Academy.
I could cow see their subdued ere. us and blues
were not unnatural.
