text:  The shipping which here form a part of the town furniture and are to be seen every where in the midst of the streets are painted with every colour of the rainbow and carved and ornamented according to such ideas of taste in sculpture as are prevalent among Dutchmen; and the whole exhibits a good specimen of a people who have as much to struggle with mud as if they had been born so many eels and whose conceptions of the real colour of the sky are even a shade darker than our own