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are indeed wearing to the nervous system. Then streets, or canals rather, are lined with quaint fronted houses - steep roofed scalloped and [peted?] up squares, - joined together in endless array of typical disorder one roof line up, another down without any symmetry except that of irregularity. 
The landscape of Holland is flat but oh, so restful and pastoral. The color is soft and transient and the various greens softened by atmosphere are connected always by innumerable waterways. The flat pastures are sprinkled with fat black and white spotted meek-eyed cows. Usually they bask on the greens or wade about tree-fringed pools which not unfrequently reflect the picturesque Dutch windmills. For quaintness Holland cannot be equalled and is probably one of the most interesting countries in Europe because of its dash of local color and provincialism. It is the absolute opposite in landscape from dramatic Switzerland. 
Holland isn't so immaculate as Germany or Switzerland, but the food is decidedly better. Holland is an amazing country when you think of the fact that half the land is below sea-level and formerally had to be coaxed from the sea bottom. 
Even now it must be retained by the same vigilance and persistence which won it from the sea. But Germany too, is to be commended upon her come-back after the war, It is nothing less than marvellous. There is nothing neglected, dirty or run down in all Germany - oh no rather the opposite. She is stable, firm, and solid and withall progressive. And how she does it with all that is being squeezed out of her is more than I can tell.

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are indeed wearing to the nervous system. Then streets, or canals rather, are lined with quaint fronted houses - steep roofed scalloped and [peted?] up squares, - joined together in endless array of typical disorder one roof line up, another down without any symmetry except that of irregularity. The landscape of Holland is flat but oh, so restful and pastoral. The color is soft and transient and the various greens softened by atmosphere are connected always by innumerable waterways. The flat pastures are sprinkled with fat black and white spotted meek-eyed cows. Usually they bask on the greens or wade about tree-fringed pools which not unfrequently reflect the picturesque Dutch windmills. For quaintness Holland cannot be equalled and is probably one of the most interesting countries in Europe because of its dash of local color and provincialism. It is the absolute opposite in landscape from dramatic Switzerland. Holland isn't so immaculate as Germany or Switzerland, but the food is decidedly better. Holland is an amazing country when you think of the fact that half the land is below sea-level and formerally had to be coaxed from the sea bottom. Even now it must be retained by the same vigilance and persistence which won it from the sea. But Germany too, is to be commended upon her come-back after the war, It is nothing less than marvellous. There is nothing neglected, dirty or run down in all Germany - oh no rather the opposite. She is stable, firm, and solid and withall progressive. And how she does it with all that is being squeezed out of her is more than I can tell.