. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Stadt-House, Amsterdam. Book I. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. 613 than in most European cities; a consequence, probably, of the humidity of the climate, andof the effluvia arising, in summer, from the canals. Rotterdam (Jif^. ^02.), the second city in Holland, is more conveniently situated for com-merce than Amsterdam, having a readier access to the sea; and the Maese on which it issituated, being so very deep as to admit vessels of the largest draught of water to lie close 3G3.

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