. Thackerayana;. where you might go and smoke a pipe with Mynheer von Dunck,and quite cheerfully catch the ague. Amsterdam.—The first landing at Calais (or, I suppose, onany foreign shore), the first sight of an Eastern city, the first view 112 4«4 THA CKERA YANA. of Venice, and this of Amsterdam, are among the delightful shockswhich I have had as a traveller. Amsterdam is as good as Venice,with a superadded humour and grotesqueness which gives thesight-seer the most singular zest and pleasure. A run throughPekin I could hardly fancy to bemore odd, strange, and yet rush, and crow
. Thackerayana;. where you might go and smoke a pipe with Mynheer von Dunck,and quite cheerfully catch the ague. Amsterdam.—The first landing at Calais (or, I suppose, onany foreign shore), the first sight of an Eastern city, the first view 112 4«4 THA CKERA YANA. of Venice, and this of Amsterdam, are among the delightful shockswhich I have had as a traveller. Amsterdam is as good as Venice,with a superadded humour and grotesqueness which gives thesight-seer the most singular zest and pleasure. A run throughPekin I could hardly fancy to bemore odd, strange, and yet rush, and crowd, and prodi-gious vitality—this immense swarmof life --these busy waters, crowd-ing barges, swinging draw-bridges,piled ancient gables, spacious mar-kets teeming with people — thatever-wonderful Jews quarter—thatdear old world of painting and thepast, yet alive, and throbbing, and palpable—actual, and yetpassing before you swiftly and strangely as a dream ! Of the manyjourneys of this Roundabout life,
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