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CHAP. IV. - Pieter de la Court, The True Interest and Political Maxims, of the Republic of Holland [1662]Edition used:The True Interest and Political Maxims of the Republic of Holland (London: John Campbell, Esq, 1746).
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CHAP. IV.Of the natural product and advantages of Holland. The natural growth of Holland and what it yields.TO ballance these heavy burdens beforementioned, the inland waters yield nothing but fish, water-fowl and their eggs, the downs only conies: four hundred thousand acres, or morgens of land, nothing but brick-earth, turf, corn, herbs and roots, fruit of trees, flax, hemp, reeds, grass, madder, cattle, sheep, horses. But the downs may be also said to yield lime and sand. And how unsufficient all these products from so small and inconsiderable a bottom are in themselves for the subsistence of so many inhabitants, every one may easily imagine. |
