LETTER III.

The Prince of Orange’s cabinet of paintings.--Temptation of St. Anthony, by Breughel.--Exquisite pictures by Berghem and Wouvermans.--Mean garrets stored with inestimable productions of the Indies.--Enamelled flasks of oriental essences.--Vision of the wardrobe of Hecuba.--Disenchantment.--Cabinet of natural history.--A day dream.--A delicious morsel.--Dinner at Sir Joseph Yorke’s.--Two honourable boobies.--The Great Wood.--Parterres of the Greffier Fagel.--Air poisoned by the sluggish canals.--Fishy locality of Dutch banquetting rooms.--Derivation of the inhabitants of Holland.--Origin and use of enormous galligaskins.--Escape from damp alleys and lazy waters. 24