Anecdotes of Lawrence Coster: art of printing how discovered; its
originality disputed: female fortitude and presence of mind:
siege of Haarlem: heroic conduct of the women: brief anecdote of
Wouvermans: of Bamboccio: fatal effects of severe criticism:
anecdotes of Nicholas Berghem and his termagant wife: of
Ruysdaal: enormous sluices; approach to Amsterdam; its general
appearance: a sley: Erasmus’s whimsical description of that city:
the stadt-house: silence represented as a female: the tower:
clocks, singular mode of striking the hour 148