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capsize, Gibbv slammed on the car brakes.
The taillights reappeared up the road. The
cyclists had merely honored a stop sign.
In our hotel lobby was a city map showing
waterways slicing close by most of the places
we wanted to visit.
Wives Paced Balcony of Weepers' Tower
"Take the sight-seeing boat," advised the
hotel clerk. "It's the best way to see Amster
dam. If you get lost, remember this: the
main canals run in five semicircles around
the Central Station. Follow any one of them,
and you come back to the trains in time."
A floating charabanc with a guide who
declaimed in four languages, the boat chugged
under bridges and along placid stretches where
moss grew thick on stone canal walls. Leafy
branches scraped the glass roof. Images of
old houses stood reflected in the water.
"Amsterdam, because of its 50 canals and
400 bridges, is sometimes called the 'Venice of
the North,'intoned the guide dutifully.
"Hey! What do we do now?" broke in
Continued, on page 377
The Netherlands: Victor over the Sea
A quarter of the lowlands country popularly called
Holland lies below sea level. Without the dikes,
major storms would flood almost half the land.
Electric pumps dispose of rain water and seepage; in
days gone by the job was entrusted to windmills.
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