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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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GENEEAL FEATUEES, ETC. 389 now to fill up altogether. The formidable fortifications of Sluis, which no longer defend anything, the fine municipal buildings of Dannne, and the deserted streets of Bruges clearly result from the great changes which have taken place in Flanders. A canal 13 feet in depth now joins Bruges to Ostend, but has not brought back the commercial activity of former days. But whilst the surface currents of the sea transport the sand and mud which form the dunes and fill up the estuaries, the under-currents continue their work of erosion. Peat containing oak-leaves, hazel nuts, and even broom seeds is almost daily cast up on the strand. On the beach of Heyst a fossil shell of eocene age (Cardita planicosta) is found, together with the remains of species still living in Fig. 219.âGrKOINS AT Clankenmîerghb Scale 1 : 120.000.
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Depth down to ?(â Fiths. iMile. Dipth beysnd 2j- Fatllt, the North Sea. There can be no doubt that the sea has encroached within historical times upon the coast of Belgian Flanders, as is clearly shown by the evidence collected by the brothers Belpaire. At Ostend there exist abundant traces of marine erosion. The d)ke upon which the old citadel of that town was constructed advances now 600 feet beyond the general contour of the coast, which has been washed away on either side of it. The coast of Belgium, since its bays have become silted up, is singularly rectilinear in its profile, but, to defend it against the encroachments of the sea, it was necessary, in many localities, to construct a large number of groins. Nowhere in Europe are such groins more numerous than between Blankenberghe and Heyst, where they replace Duke John's old dyke. The shore of Belgium is exceedingly poor in shells, owing to the absence of rocks to

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