May xi.
Having continued thus long at Amsterdam, enjoying the company of my good friends, and amusing my self with the variety of entertainments, which this place affords to strangers, I now depart for Naerden in the treck schuyt by the way of Muyden, whither I am kindly accompanied by Mr. Le Jolle. There I arrive by two a clock, and having viewed that complete and compact fortification, I depart at six in a post chaise for Utrecht, where I arrive by nine, and lodge without the gate. In the morning I repair to Mr. Foley, and am by him invited to lodge in his apartment. He carried me to visit Holthenus, a learned divine and minister of the place, who had then the care of the new edition of Gruter; and has a good collection of coins, among which was observable Nerva of the largest size, the reverse a palm tree, with the legend FISCI IVDAICI CALVMNIA ABLATA.