AMSTERDAM, a large and beautiful city of Holland, situated on the river Amstel, and an arm of the sea, called Wye, a little eastward of the Zuyder-sea, in E. long. and N. lat.
It is computed to be half as big as London; and, in point of trade, equal to any town in the known world; there being people in it of almost every nation and religion of Europe, who apply themselves with the utmost diligence to heap up wealth, not with a view to enjoy it, but to have the pleasure of dying rich.