A disastrous inundation overwhelmed her on the evening of All Saints' Day in 1825, when the dykes were broken and the water rushed in to the height of five feet.

Such must be great times of triumph for the floating population, who, like the sailor in the old ballad of the sea, may well pity the unfortunate and insecure dwellers in houses.

What the number of Friesland's floating population is I do not know; but it must be very large.

Many barges and tjalcks are both the birthplace and deathplace of their owners, who know no other home.

The cabins are not less intimately cared for and decorated than the sitting-rooms of Volendam and Marken.
We saw at Edam certain odd characters formed in Nature's wayward moods.