This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: …has, besides the ordinary handicrafts, tanneries, sugar and salt refineries, and some fabrics of wool, cotton and linen. There has been a cotton-factory (the yarn used in which has been twothirds English), established under royal protection near Zwolle. It supplied the Batavian Company with about 16,000/. sterling value of ordinary cotton fabrics for Java. The concern has, however, been an unprofitable one, and said to be now nearly broken up. Steamboats navigate the Yssel from the Rhine at Arnheim to Campen near the Zuyder-Zee, from which others ply to Amsterdam. Cutting and exporting peat forms a leading occupation for the inhabitants. In the foregoing four provinces the food of the people consists chiefly of potatoes, and rye-bread, with a little meat and fish, butter-milk and whey. Fruit and culinary vegetables are raised in all, especially near the towns. Guelderland in the only country in the kingdom which may, in parts, be called hilly. A great portion, however, consists of heaths, and steril waste lands. Some of the latter has been planted for some years with Scotch firs and Weymouth pines; and also with oak shrubbery, for the purpose chiefly of using the same as underwood for fuel, &c. In other parts, whether in the marshy alluvions, and low country extending from the Meuse to Gorcum and Arnheim, and along the western frontier and Zuyder-Zee, or in the undulated country, north of Arnbeim, pasturage and arable cultivation are industriously and carefully attended to. Wheat, rye, potatoes, and other vegetables, and especially buckwheat and tobacco, are the principal crops. Guelderland abounds in orchards. The cultivation of many parts near Arnheim, is in the most flourishing state; and this province appeared to us on passing recently over it to be…
