Excerpt from Batavia Illustrata, or a View of the Policy, and Commerce, of the United Provinces, Particularly of Holland: With an Enquiry Into the Alliances of the States General, With the Emperor, France, Spain, and Great Britain; In Three Parts The batavi come originally from Hesse; under the Conduet of their King batton, ' reduced to fly his Country by the Arti fices Of a Mother in Law who attempted to poil'on him. (a) The firft Place They pofi fefl'ed The mfelves Of was an lfland, formed by the Waal and the Rhine, Which to this Day retains the name Of bataw, from whence following the Courfe Of this hit River, They fate down at one of thofe Place: where it dill: embogues it felf into the Sea, and named it catwick. (5) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.