New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-12
4 RIDE 7HROUGH 4 QUIET COUNTRY

Correspondence Of The ~ Y. Tribune.
HEIDELBERG, Oct. 20, 1886.
IL sou wish TO fee from your and vexations,
and ach the other side Of the world in the least pos
-ible space of time, sail directly for Holland Van
Demehs land and those places far oh, and beside,
Holland is equally andpodaI.
The Dutch cities have an interest of their own, with
their peculiar architecture and broad navgable streets
"a species Of stupefed Borean fenices. Every
scholar too will be interested in the birthplace OF
Erasmus, the home of Lnnaus, and several Of those
old worthies But it is the spirit that peryades the
aud-he genius ioci that keeps the attention so con-
.taly alive and awskens such peculiar interest.
In order to see and feel anything OF this in Holland
or indeed anywhere else It is necessary 10 keep clear
of the great highways of public travel OF all the
foolish things that men do there are probably few In
which more folly is committed than ia travelling An
Enelishman takes with him three trunks and guide
book and sets out for the of Europe stops when
lis guide book tells him. putsup at the prescribed hotels
which, Of course become socosmopoan that he is as
much at home at his hotel in Holland or in Switzerland
heisat the same kind OF hotel Engand the sights
be is told to- feels sublime" whore is expected OF
him. sees up all the important sights, and knows as
little Of the real life Of the people of these countries as
b. would he had stayed at home. Indeed it getting
travel for no other purpose than to drive off the ennui
A set of iders
WHO travel here who trayc! there,
But not the value Of hair
/. head or heart the better"
We won't stop long at Rotterdam OF the Hague.
Ever, body speaks English there, aud You hardly feel
yourself away from home, except when your hat blows
off into a cal al, you are obliged to threaten some
uretched guide with immersion who has been trying
for the last bali hour TO victnze YOU. But com. out
into the country-ihe country that Hudibras cay.
dJars ttty JET II rattr:
.In which men live a. In the hold Of nature;
Aud when the sea does IN upon them break
AMI drown province, does bat spring Leak
and see the Dutch at home.
AZ you ride through Holland there ia just enough OF
tie strange and queer on every side to keep you 10
that peculiar condition in which the face bears that
.or Of Acknowledged smile Of ndicule and wonder
which man might be supposed to wear IN making
tour Of the moon. Everything Is aquatic You feel
somehow as if, in compromising the elements here
there was Il superfui'y Of air and water bar sorry
lack OF earth. Especially in the vicinity of Delft the
terrestrial element seems visbIy falng at czziet
hight is not over a foot two out OF water an1
seems sinking; while the windmls as far a. you can
zee oh every side, without end W number, make
orotesque fappipg with their mOnstrOus wings, as II
Holland were making desperate but inenectuaistrug-
Gle to save herself and rise out of ne rter byfyiHy.
II would Ell. TO be impossible TO 90 twenty rods in
any dir. e,ion without encounterog cans or ditch.
No qrnins ROW here the grains for the part
nat amphibious but the plumbers of large speckled
G,lack and whel cattle thickly scatercd-s0gH-ovsr
tbe meadows testify 70 the Abundance of grass. Hence
the uuriyaled snd worlren0 wbed cheese Gnl butter
~ Uol,,rJ We can al-o testify equal % the EXCEL
lepce Other bread. The "a united fr in the zee