Few drays, carts, or carriages. The universal canal affords the principal means of transportation. Drawbridges are numerous and frequently up, with crowds waiting at either end to pass over. They are patient waiters. As thereis so little on wheels to avoid, most people use the street in preference to the sidewalk.
Dogs draw heav'y loads, and they are harnessed under the cart.
The driver also becomes a beast of burden, and tugs away at the wagon-pole assisting the canine. Cigars, single and in bundles, are hawked about the streets in hand-carts. The Venders are noisy and importunate. In most places, a meal-store is a graniverously dusty and slovenly sort of place. In the Rotterdam meal-shops, not a speck of flour is seen save where it belongs.