He asserted that one of the principal profits arose from the tolls exacted on the entrance of goods into the town.

"Each gate," said the ingenious advocate, "has brought in ten million florins this year; that is to say, with seven gates we have gained seventy million florins.

This is a most important fact.

I therefore propose that the council double the number of gates, and in this way we shall in future considerably augment our funds." The Irishman who, when asked to buy a stove that would save half his fuel, replied that he would have two and save it all, was of the same school of logic.
From Kampen the island of Urk may be visited: but I have not been there.

In 1787, I have read somewhere, the inhabitants of Urk decided to form a club in which to practise military exercises and the use of arms.