Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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1893 text
Schevingen, the port of the Hague.
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Den Haag or ‘s-Gravenhageg
then to Scheveningen (the strand)
the beach resort of the Hague: a nice picture of beach 1880 to give one the idea of the fun sailors had in earlier years.
Is it Holland?;is it Netherlands?
http://home-2.tiscali.nl/~aarde01/scheveningen.htm
http://home-2.tiscali.nl/~aarde01/dhd010.htmScheveningen olde map
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~welling/maps/janssonius/z-holland.gif
other events in netherlands their history of the times of commerce and the wars for freedom:
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/lowcountries/eralibi.html
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Scheveningen was also an important base for a fishing fleet. The flatbottomed ships were sailed onto the beach at high tide and sailed out again at a following high tide. So at low tide they could be reached for unloading etc.
Holland is the western part of the Netherlands, but, to the chagrin of the Dutch outside that part, most of the world uses the name Holland for the whole country.
Also: it is ‘s-Gravenhage, so without the added -g-. -
Scheveningen in Wikipedia
