"The city of Amsterdam--remarkable as being one of the chief metropoles
of Europe, and as being in many respects the general market of whole
the universe; justly celebrated for--its large interior canals, on both
of their sides enlivened and sheltered by ranges of large, thick, and
beautiful trees, and presenting, on large broad and neatly kept, most
regularly pav'd quays, long chains of sumptuous habitations, or rather
palaces of the principal and _weathy_ merchants; moreover remarkable by
its Museum for the objects of the fine arts, &c., its numberless public
edifices adapted either to the _cultivation_ of arts, or to the
exertions of trade, or to _establishments_ charitable purposes, or of
temples of all manners of divine worship--the city of Amsterdam, we
say," &c. It is dated "This 15^{the} of Juin, 1829."