Stories of persons and places in Europe . almly down by their door-sidesand smoke their pipes in peace and plenty with the imprisoned watersflowing obediently along above their heads. This undertaking has been such a success that the Dutch are now plan-ning a greater one, the draining of the Zuyder Zee. This great body ofwater was also snatched by the ocean in one or two terrible sweeps of fury,and now the persevering Hollanders will patiently win it back again. Theywill gain about five hundred thousand acres of land by the operation at a Netherlands. 189 cost of fifty millions of dollars. Alr
Stories of persons and places in Europe . almly down by their door-sidesand smoke their pipes in peace and plenty with the imprisoned watersflowing obediently along above their heads. This undertaking has been such a success that the Dutch are now plan-ning a greater one, the draining of the Zuyder Zee. This great body ofwater was also snatched by the ocean in one or two terrible sweeps of fury,and now the persevering Hollanders will patiently win it back again. Theywill gain about five hundred thousand acres of land by the operation at a Netherlands. 189 cost of fifty millions of dollars. Already the surveys have been completed,a huge dyke will be built from Eukhuizen on the western shore to the islandof Urk, and from there to Kempen, a distance of twenty-five miles, and bythe end of the present century, the Dutch cows with blankets on will begrazing where now the scaly fish are swimming. Windmills.—It is often said that Nature has done nothing for theDutch, they have had to struggle against Nature all along. The only ele-. ENTRANCE TO THE ZUYDER ZEE. ment that has helped them at all has been the wind, it has furnished muchof the power that has drained the marshes and done quantities of otherwork besides. In other countries sawmills, flourmills and factories can berun by water power; in Holland where there are no swift streams to do thiswork, they have harnessed the wind. Everywhere the country is coveredwith tall whirling windmills that are busily draining the marshes, grindingcorn, sawing timber, cutting tobacco, washing rags, crushing lime, break-ing stones and doing various other services for the Hollanders. 190 Persons and Places in Europe. These windmills, the larger ones, are tall brick towers about fifty feethigh, covered with a heavy thatch of straw and furnished with enormousarms of wood or sailcloth that sweep around in a circle of over a hundredfeet in diameter. Each turn produces a tremendous shudder through-out the mill and when there is a fair bree
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