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Show t Deed City of Hoorn Hoorn is one of the so-called "dead cities" of' the Zuyder see. All who visit the quaint old place should recall that in 1010, Willem Schouten, one of the greatest of old Dutch navigators, was the first -to double Cape Horn, which Is named after his n'atlve town. Hoorn Is a quiet, out-of-the-way place and suggests little today of the enterprising enter-prising and flourishing port it was in the days of Dutch sea power. The fine old Stadhuls, Its guest houses, churches,' orphanages all seem apparitions -from the Seventeenth Seven-teenth century. |