. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. west, and they exhibit a tendency to diverge even to the south-west. This abnormal direction of the Dutch rivers is due to the action of the tides. At the Holder the difference between high and low water amounts to 4*9 feet ; but it increases as we travel southward, and at the mouth of the Scheldeit is 16-6 feet. Thus the level of the sea is higher at ebb at the Holder than on the coast of Zealand, and the rivers naturally seek an outlet in the direction of the latter. The tidal wave rushes up the estuaries of Zealand with great force, and in ebbin
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. west, and they exhibit a tendency to diverge even to the south-west. This abnormal direction of the Dutch rivers is due to the action of the tides. At the Holder the difference between high and low water amounts to 4*9 feet ; but it increases as we travel southward, and at the mouth of the Scheldeit is 16-6 feet. Thus the level of the sea is higher at ebb at the Holder than on the coast of Zealand, and the rivers naturally seek an outlet in the direction of the latter. The tidal wave rushes up the estuaries of Zealand with great force, and in ebbing its scour deepens the bed of the rivers. The sea, in fact, is both the friend and the enemy of the Dutch— Protector el hostis, as we read on an old Zealand coin. It bears their ships, forms a protecting boundary, and throws fecund alluvium upon their shores, but at the
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