[A Wanderer in Holland by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Holland CHAPTER XVIII 2/36
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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