Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 172
t of the famous Zoological Gardens—the richest of thesort in Europe—together with the imiDrovement of the docks and wharves in that part of thetown, the Jews Quarter no longer has the picturesque and tumbledown irregularity shownin our picture. This is owing to the fact that the stream of travel… … THE JEWS QUARTER IN AMSTERDAM.FROM THE PICTURE BY ANDREAS ACHENBACH. break up the old, free-and-easy, careless way of living, so long indulged in by the inhabitants. To find such a tumble-down state of things as is here represented, one must now go a long way out of the city, and it is a chance if…
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