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We left Workum at twelve o'clock with a strong head wind, but it soon became calm, so that it was six o'clock before we passed Enckhuysen. We came to anchor before Amsterdam about eleven o'clock at night. By walking to Oosterend and a little beyond one found, as the canals then lay, a canal route to the Zuider Zee. 9th, Friday.
There are six villages, namely Oosterend, Seelt, the Hoogh, the Burgh, which is the principal one, and has privileges like a city, such as that of inflicting capital punishment and others; the Oude Schilt, which is mostly resorted to by ships, the Hoorn, and also the West End, which has now fallen into decay.
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