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 | | It will be observed that here, and almost everywhere else in Holland, the names of saints which used to be attached to the churches have disappeared the buildings are generally known as the old church, or new church, or great church. |
 | | Passing through it we found ourselves in the enclosure of the old abbey, shaded by a grove of trees, and surrounded by ancient buildings, part of which are appropriated as the Hotel Abdij, where we arrived utterly famished, and found a table d'hote at 2.30 P.M. unspeakably reviving. |
 | | It is situated upon the influx of the Amstel to the Y, as the arm of the Zuider Zee which forms the harbour is called, and it occupies a huge semicircle, its walls being enclosed by the broad moat, six and a half miles long, which is known as Buitensingel. |
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