Excerpt from Modern Holland We are proud, too, of our Dutch ancestry and of our illustrious Americans of Dutch descent. And we like to dream of the picturesque Holland of to-day: of the seas of green fields, of the peaceful grazing cattle, of the tiny red - roofed villages, of quaint costumes and wooden shoes, and of the aristocratic windmill silently watchful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.