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Show Traffic on the Canals of Holland. Next to tho windmills. Holland Is best known for its canals, for the entire en-tire country is a network of these waterways. Almost everywhere one looks is to be seen a canal threading Its way through the meadows and fields and towns, and at. frequent intervals inter-vals canal boats, drawn by horses or men, or else propelled by sails or a gasoline engine for this latter modern mod-ern means of propulsion is now Installed In-stalled on many of the boats may be een passing, and if one has the leisure to make a canal boat trip through Holland Hol-land it offers an Interesting and unique means of transport. This cheap form of transportation Is a godsend to the Dutch people. By means of the slow hut capacious canal boats their garden and field products are carried to tho j markets of the cities, and if there ever were a necessity for the regulation of railway rates in that country, cana! boat transportation would solv6 tho j problem. j |