There is no need to reply to these at all.
On the Dam also is the Royal Palace, which once was the stadhuis, but in 1808 (when Amsterdam was the third city of the French Empire) was offered to Louis Napoleon for a residence.

Queen Wilhelmina occasionaly stays there, but The Hague holds her true home.

The apartments are florid and not very interesting; but if the ascent of the tower is permitted one should certainly make it.

It is interesting to have Amsterdam at one's feet.

Only thus can its peculiar position and shape be understood: its old part an almost perfect semicircle, with canal-arcs within arcs, and its northern shore washed by the Y.
Also on the Dam is the New Church, which is to be seen more for the tomb of De Ruyter than for any architectural graces.