. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Navlijahli rivers <5- canaU 25 Miles. seamanship, but have hardly any ships of their own now. This is undoubtedly due to fiscal mismanagement, for Belgium possesses all the materials requisite for the construction of ships. The Belgian marine has only slightly increased in the course of the last twenty years. Nor is the fleet of fishing-smacks very consider- able, for the herring fisheries have been abandoned since 1863 as unprofitable, * In 1877 6,17'3 vessels, of 2,673,615 tons, entered, 16-6 per cent, of the tonnage being under the Belgian flag.

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