Excerpt from Belgium and Holland, Handbook: For Travellers 'l'ue chief object of the handbook for Belgium andholland is to rentier tue t.itveller aS independent as pos-sible of tite embarrassing and expcnive services of couiwissionaires, guides, and other members of the same fraternity, to enable hhu to derive tite greatest possibleamount of pleasure and instruction from a tour in theseinteresting countries, and to placo him in a position tocmploy bis time, his energies and his fluances to the bestadvantage. The handbook has been compiled entirely from tueEditor s personal experience, and lie has used every en-(Icavour to furnish information acceptable to enlightenedtravellers of every class. The present edition, which cor-responds to the 11th in the German language anti theI, th in the French, has been carefully revised and alteredin accordance with tite most recent time-tables, catalogues, government statistics, etc; mind the Editor lias frequentlyavailed himself of much valuable information afforded bytravellers, whiclm he here gratefully ackwledges. It need, howcvcr, hardly be remarked that bond fick statementsby travellers, founded on their personal observation, arealone acceptable. The Editor especially craves tite indulgence of his readers if the enumeration of pictures, curiosities in museums, etc. should in any instance be foundinaccurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.