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Title: First impressions of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Joseph Whitman, 1865-1932
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Publisher: New York, The Grafton press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is worn two inchesdeep by use. From the apparent effects of single axe-blows, averaging two to sever a head, a lugubrious his-tory is recorded. Another block, used in the tortureby dripping water, is also deeply worn,—but a slightindication of its actual use, as the drops fell constantly,even if no hapless victim sat chained beneath. In onecell prisoners overlooked the kitchen from a little roundwindow and, while slowly starving to death, watchedthe aproned cook prepare the tasty viands they couldnever share. A dark cavernous cell, ornamented inthe sixteenth century by an imprisoned priest, with de-signs drawn in his own blood, is yet more grewsome.It seems incredible that blood stains, though shadedfrom light, should so long retain a suggestion of originalcoloring; yet, by lamplight, they seem genuine, andwhere thickest may be scaled with a knife blade. Longmight these massive walls have re-echoed screams ofthe unfortunate, had good Father William not risento rend the Spanish yoke.
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Amsterdam 49 AMSTERDAM Amsterdam (the Dam of the Amster) has beencalled the Northern or Vulgar Venice from its manycanals of varying width yet never-varying foulness.Six hundred bridges span the sluggish waters, underwhich pass hundreds of canal boats, usually self-pro-pelled. All Amsterdam is picturesque, if the visitorcan effectually sever the picturesque from the malo-dorous. Here at last our exact preconceived idea of aEuropean city became realized; narrow irregular streetsteeming with activities, and long rows of buildings thatfrom age and sinking foundations leaned over the side-walks. The city has deeper and more diversified color-ing than Brussels or Antwerp, with many very lightwindow frames on dark buildings. The QueensPalace, hard by our quarters at Hotel de Suisse, in Kal-verstraat, was built in the fifteenth century, and boastsone of Europes grandest halls, with floors, walls, andceiling of pure Italian marble. Our ladies, apparentlyunable to dissociate sight and smell, f

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