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Title: The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846 Wallace, William, 1768-1843 Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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and is also penetrated by the deep inlet ofthe Zuyder Zee. The whole territory extends between 49° 30 and 53° 34 N. lat., and2° 30 and 7° 12 E. long.; making about 280 miles in length, and 220 miles in breadth.The entire extent, according to the best calculations, amounts to 24,870 square miles, or15.900,000 English acres. In respect to surface, this country includes the lowest portion of the great low land ofthe European continent. The northern parts, composing the new kingdom of Holland, aremostly below the level to which tiie bordering sea rises during high tides or swells. Henceoriginated an imminent danger of inundation, till the Dutch constructed those mighty dikes,by which the sea is excluded, and which form so extraordinary a monument of their industry.Holland is humorously described by Butler as a country that draws fitly feet of water.The Belgic provinces are also flat, but not lower than the surface of tlie sea, nor much exposed 496 MAP OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. Fig. 256.
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Book T. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM 497 to river inundation. In the south-eastern district of Liege and Namur, branches of theRhenish mountains render the surface irregular, and sometimes hilly, particularly in thetract forming part of tlie ancient forest of Ardennes. Several rivers, which rank among the greatest in Europe, and are derived from distantsource.*, pass thiough this territory; and, separating into numerous channels, form broadestuaries at their entrance into the ocean. They all unite in the channel of the majesticRhine ; yet, by a singular fortune, this great name is not retamed by the main branch of theriver, which, in turning to the westward, receives tlie name of Waal, and afterwards thatif its important tributary the Maese, under which designation it flows into the sea below^totterdam. The Yssel, another considerable branch, runs northward into the Zuyder Zee;while the name of Rhine is retained by another, comparatively a rivulet, which passestlirough the provinces of Gueldre

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