Belgium and HollandHandbook for travellers . actures of Leyden and theadvent of Flemish cloth-makers. — The rooms adjoining on the other sidecontain a collection of old weapons and standards. The promenades near the Rynshurg Gate (PI. C, 1), by whichwe enter the town from the railway-station, are adorned with a statueof Herman Boerhaave (PI. 24; see p. 282), modelled by it is the Academic Hospital, and, in the distance, the Mili-tary Hospital. — On the Galgewater (PI. B, C, 3) is the Kweekschoolvoor de Zeevaart, or seamens training school. The open spaces on both sides of the S
Belgium and HollandHandbook for travellers . actures of Leyden and theadvent of Flemish cloth-makers. — The rooms adjoining on the other sidecontain a collection of old weapons and standards. The promenades near the Rynshurg Gate (PI. C, 1), by whichwe enter the town from the railway-station, are adorned with a statueof Herman Boerhaave (PI. 24; see p. 282), modelled by it is the Academic Hospital, and, in the distance, the Mili-tary Hospital. — On the Galgewater (PI. B, C, 3) is the Kweekschoolvoor de Zeevaart, or seamens training school. The open spaces on both sides of the Steenschuur Canal (PL E, 5)were formerly covered with houses and owe their present appearanceto an appalling explosion of gunpowder, which took place in space on the N. bank is now partly occupied by buildingsconnected with the university (PI. 8), while that on the S., whichis still known as the GrooteRuine,is laid out as a latter also contains a monument to Burgomaster van der Werff(p. 280), erected in HA^A^tLiMl TranOi/n
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