y are grave
and thoughtful, but highly romantic and full of enthusiasm. Their love
for their country is most remarkable. All classes in Germany are
well-educated, and many painters, poets, and musicians, have been born
among them. The art of printing was first practiced in that country,
and at present the number of books printed there is immense; while
every year a book-fair is held at the city of Leipzig. The produce and
manufactures of Germany are exceedingly numerous, and you see they are
of great variety, such as clocks, watches, woollens, linens, toys,
wines, ornamental work in iron and steel, worsteds, and silks. In the
public walks and gardens, on Sundays, the people assemble in great
crowds, dressed out in their holiday clothes, while ladies and
gentlemen walk about without the least restraint among the working
people.

The chase is a favourite amusement with the nobles and gentlemen, and
is a sport in which they are lustily joined by the peasantry. The
immense forests with which the country abounds gives shelter to wild
boars, wolves, and many other ferocious animals. On grand occasions
there is held what is called a _battue_, when a number of deer are
driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The habits of
the peasants are extremely simple, but the people are industrious and
ingenious. The villages and cottages are neat and comfortable. The
peasants make many pretty toys and ornaments, and bring provisions to
market from a great distance, in light roomy wheel-barrows, made for
the purpose. The German people are in general fair, with blue eyes,
flaxen hair, and full figures; but they do not wear any very peculiar
dress.

In models of ships, in rosewood furniture, in silver embroidery, and
silver cups,--besides linens, calicoes, and glass beautifully painted
for windows; many contributions have been sent in by the Dutch. There
are also soft thick blankets with scarlet borders, which make one warm
merely to look at them.

The Dutch people are industrious, and cleanly. The women are the most
active and nicest house-wives in the world; they scour and brighten,
and rub not only the furniture and inside of their houses, but the
outside as well; the houses in Holland, by-the-bye, look like painted
baby-houses, and are roofed with glossy delft tiles, and the rooms are
lined with smooth square tiles of delft, and the floors paved with
marble. The people are never idle in Holland, but are always working