April xvii.
I now return again to Amsterdam, by the way of Gouda, in company with Mr. Vandeput. Here we stop to observe the excellent painted glass in the several windows of that church; and then proceeding in our passage by the treck schuyt arrive at Amsterdam by six a clock next morning, and after diner make a visit to Dr. Cockburn. The next day we are introduced by the Doctor to see Mr. De Wild’s cabinet, richly furnished with coins, gems, sculptures, and statues. Among the rest of his curiosities he has an excellent piece, representing the Massacre of the De Witts, a good brass Otho, and a fine Venus Anadyomene. The day following the Doctor procured for us the like favour from Mr. Vincent, whose cabinet consists of a very numerous and well disposed collection of animals and shells.