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canals, it is the most picturesque too, and gives quite a dutch impression. In this period the red brick is now generally used also for the private dwellings, and the roofs are tiled with red or sometimes black tiles. The gables facing the streets are adorned with sandstone round the windows and doors. Such sandstone ornaments are a characteristic mode of buildings of this period built more or less in the style called the “Dutch Renaissance”. Yoy may see a fine example of this style in the so-calle

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