LEYDEN. 53 the Elzevirs, and the famous siege of 1 574, during which the besiegers employed pigeons to convey news. When we first saw Leyden we thought it dull and solitary ; but afterwards we visited Utrecht, and now Leyden seems in our recollections full of life and animation. It is indeed an… … Fig- 35- — View of the Koornbrog at Leyden. to the Romans, and which, on the top of a hill fifty feet high — one must be in Holland to call such a mole-hill a hill — commanded a very strong position on the Rhine ; a position unimportant at the present time. We expected to find in the ‘ burg ’ of…
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