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| | Netherlands - Leeuwarden And Neighbourhood |
 | | But at Leeuwarden you find, sweeping and plaining over the canals, the beautiful tern, otherwise known as the sea swallow, white and powerful and delicately graceful, and possessed of a double portion of the melancholy of birds of the sea. |
 | | At Leeuwarden is a patriotic society known as the " Vereenigung tot bevordering van vreemdelingenverkeer," whose ambition, as their title suggests, is to draw strangers to the town ; and as part of their campaign they have issued a little guide to Leeuwarden and its environs, in English. |
 | | Thus (of Leeuwarden) : "It is surrounded by splendid fertile meadows, to all of which, though especially to those lying near the roads to Marssum and Stiens, may be applied the words of the Frisian poet Dr. E. |
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