The New International Encyclopædia/Amersfoort

AMERSFOORT, ä′mẽrz-fört. An ancient town in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, 15 miles nortleast of Utrecht on the Fern, which flows into the Zuyder Zee (Map: Neherlands, D 2) The town is situated in a fertile plain, at the foot of sandy hills. Tobacco Is much grown in the district, and cotton and woolen goods, leather, soap, beer, etc.. are manufactured. The Catholic church of St. Mary, built in the fourteenth century, has a Gothic tower 308 feet high, considered the finest in Holland. There is also a college of Jansenists in the town, it being one of the chief seats of this sect, which does not now exist outside of Holland. Pop., 1890, 15,500; 1900, 19,000.