Once the sea washed its very walls.
To the ordinary traveller the most interesting things in the Leeuwarden museum, which is opposite the Chancellerie, are the Hindeloopen rooms which I have described in the last chapter; but to the antiquary it offers great entertainment.

Among ancient relics which the spade has revealed are some very early Frisian tobacco pipes.

Among the pictures, for the most part very poor, is a dashing Carolus Duran and a very beautiful little Daubigny.
Affiliated to the museum is one of the best collections of Delft china in Holland--a wonderful banquet of blue.

This alone makes it necessary to visit Leeuwarden.
All about Leeuwarden the boys have jumping poles for the ditches, and you may see dozens at a time, after school, leaping backwards and forwards over the streams, like frogs.

Children abound in Friesland: the towns are filled with boys and girls; but one sees few babies.