In Amsterdam every one is busy in one trade or another.

There is no Pall Mall, no Rotten Row.

There is no Bond Street or Rue de la Paix, for this is a country where money tries to procure money's worth, a country of essentials.

Nor has Holland a Lord's or an Oval, Epsom Downs or Hurlingham.
Perhaps the quickest way to visualise the differences of nations is to imagine them exchanging countries.

If the English were to move to Holland the whole face of the land would immediately be changed.