. The earth and its inhabitants .. . £4,000,000 sterling, a considerable portion of which, it is hoped, will be recovered by the sale of land reclaimed on both sides of the canal. Rotterdam, threatened with being cut off from th'e sea altogether, in con- sequence of the formation of bars and the silting up of its estuaries, contented itself with a canal far less ambitious in design than that of the Y. It was con-

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