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PREFACE
MY aim in the following pages has been to convey to my readers some of the enjoyment and interest which I have experienced while rambling through the picturesque cities of Holland, its pleasant villages, and its quaint waterways; and also some of my own admiration for a people so famous in history, in enterprise, and in Art.
Thanks are due from me to my friends Mr. Henry Perrin, for many photographs; Heer Adolf Le Comte, Heer W. L. Bruckman, and Mr. Norman H. Hardy, for
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