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A Wanderer in Holland

CHAPTER XVIII
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It is the richest residential city in the country.

Arnheim the Joyous was its old name.

Arnheim the Comfortable it might now be styled.
It is the least Dutch of Dutch towns: the Rhine brings a bosky beauty to it, German in character and untamed by Dutch restraining hands.

The Dutch Switzerland the country hereabout is called.

Arnheim recalls Richmond too, for it has a Richmond Hill--a terrace-road above a shaggy precipice overlooking the river.
I walked in the early morning to Klarenbeck, up and down in a vast wood, and at a point of vantage called the Steenen Tafel looked down on the Rhine valley.


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