. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt I. Sect. IV. Of the present State of Agriculture in Holland and the Netherlands. 424. The ag
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt I. Sect. IV. Of the present State of Agriculture in Holland and the Netherlands. 424. The agriculture, of the Low Countries, and especially of Flanders, has been celebrated by the rest of Europe for upwards of 600 years ; that of Holland for its pasturage, and that of the Netherlands for tillage. We shall notice a part of the agricultural circum- stances of the two countries. Subsect. 1. Of the present Slate of Agriculture in Holland. The climate of Holland is cold and moist. The surface of the country towards the sea is low and marshy, and that of the interior sandy and naturally barren. A considerable part of Holland, indeed the chief part of the seven provinces comprising the country, is lower than the sea, and is secured from inundation by immense embankments ; while the internal water is delivered over these banks into the canals and drains leading to the sea, by mills, commonly impelled by wind. In the province of Guelderland and other internal parts, the waste grounds are extensive; being overrun with broom and heath, and the soil a black sand. The marshes, morasses, and heaths, which are characteristic of the different provinces, are, however, intermixed with cities, towns, villages, groves, gardens, and meadows, to a degree only equalled in England. There are no hills, but only gentle elevations, and no extensive woods ; but almost every where an intimate combination of land, water, and buildings. The soil in the low districts is a rich, deep, sandy mu
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