<P> On top of the palace is a large domed cupola, topped by a weather vane in the form of a cog ship . This ship is a symbol of Amsterdam . Just underneath the dome there are a few windows . From here one could see the ships arrive and leave the harbour . In the cupola is the famous carillon by François and Pieter Hemony cast in 1664 in Amsterdam . It was renovated by Eijsbouts in 1965 . Only 9 bells by François and Pieter Hemony remained . 38 new bells by Eijsbouts were made and tuned in meantone temperament . The old corroded Hemony bells are kept inside the palace . </P> <P> The central hall is 120 feet long, 60 feet wide and 90 feet high . On the marble floor there are two maps of the world with a celestial hemisphere . The Western and Eastern hemispheres are shown on the maps . The hemispheres detail the area of Amsterdam's colonial influence . The terrestrial hemispheres were made in the mid-18th century . They replaced an earlier pair made in the late 1650s . The originals showed the regions explored by the Dutch East India Company's ships in the first half of the 17th century . This feature may have been inspired by the map of the Roman Empire that had been engraved on marble and placed in the Porticus Vipsania, a public building in ancient Rome . </P>

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