The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-03
Toretgm Correspondents.
PARIS, January, 1912.

PARIS, January, 1917.
A few miles south of Harlem is Leyden, once
famous for its university, which was then the most
ceebrated'seat of learning in Europe. The Leyden
jar" has perpetuated its in the history of cleo
ricaI science, This school is days fallen far
below its ancient character, but Leyden is still rich
in interest to the of science to the more Gu
rous traveller examined with inter est its humble
but valuable anatomical museum, where saw many
preparations bearing the of illuslrous in
the history of the medical profession and its botan
cal garden, where are still trees planted by the
hands of sapans long since canonzed in the science.
Leyden possesses museum of natural history which
rivals even the splendid collections Of the Jardin
des Plantes of Paris, if it does not equal them
There are two other collections equally rich in their
way and more interesting perhaps to the majority of
travellers One is collection of Egyptian antique
ties and the other is filled with curiosities frcm China
and Japan | have, where seen museums SO
rich in these Subjects and the japanese collection
is, believe, snequ,lled in Europe. have never
spent day full of interest more busly occu-
pied than that which | passed in Leyden, and the
endless riches of its museums enlitIe it to visit of
month rather than of day. The Rhine flows
| IL
which it would be impossible recognize the noble
river which flows past Mayence and Cologne. This
branch which alone retains the name OF Kline, and
is by no the largest of the numerous outlets of
the waters of that river empes itself into the sea
near Leyden, through artificial mouth More
than thousand years ago, its mouth was closed by
an immense sand-bar, thrown up by violent tempest,
and this barrier remained until the year 1902 during
the reign of Louis Bonaparte, when the channel was
re opened and to prevent the inroads of the sea,
which would have caused the stream to overflow
its banks at every tide of extraordinary height,
mammoth sIuices or hood-gates were erected, which
command entirely the fux and refux of the tides, SO
that the water of the sea is let in that of the Rim
ia let ont only at the pleasure of the engineers Of ka
twyk.
ONLY ten miles distant from Leyden is the Hague,
| the capi,a of the kingdom of Holland. 1t Is very
neat and pretty city sixty thousand Inhabitants ana
the regularity of its streets, and the perfect cleanliness
of its handsome brick houses, reminded me strongly
of Philadelphia, but every time that turned round
10 look at the canals the force of the comparison was
instantly broken and found myself still in the land
of bitches and the Dutch. was delighted with the
Hague for it is always pleasure, especially in Eu-
rope to stroll through the streets of clean nice and
pretiy town. independently OF The Objects oil cs
pecial interest which it may contain But the Hague
is not wanting in them; it contains enough OF then
to occupy the traveller week In the first place
there are the palaces which visited, of course They
are no very splendid affairs, however, either whou
or within if except some very admirable painting
which one of them contains. There is picture gal
lery too. and a most admirable one is; 1t is rici
with the choicest work OF the Dutch painters, ant
almost equal in interest to that of Amsterdam con
tains so ne of the finest paintings that have an
where seen The Hague, like Leyden, has also II