. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 25 Miles. The conlinuous line begins at Ostend, cresses the Sambre between Charleroi and Namur, the Meu?e to the north of Dinant, and terminates at St. Hubert. The dotted line begins at Ostend, passes through Ghent, crosses the Senne to the north of Brassels, the Meuse at Liège (200 feet), and terminates at the Baraque-Michel in the Ardennes {-3,2(30 feet). generation, and to protect the fields which they formerly defended, costly dykes had to be constructed. Would it not be wiser to preserve the dunes, and to consolidate them by planting them with reeds an
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 25 Miles. The conlinuous line begins at Ostend, cresses the Sambre between Charleroi and Namur, the Meu?e to the north of Dinant, and terminates at St. Hubert. The dotted line begins at Ostend, passes through Ghent, crosses the Senne to the north of Brassels, the Meuse at Liège (200 feet), and terminates at the Baraque-Michel in the Ardennes {-3,2(30 feet). generation, and to protect the fields which they formerly defended, costly dykes had to be constructed. Would it not be wiser to preserve the dunes, and to consolidate them by planting them with reeds and aspen-trees ? EI VERS. Belgium cannot claim a single river from its source to its mouth into the sea, and two rivers rising within its frontiers take their course into foreign lands. One of these is the Oise, which rises near Chiraay, and flows to the French Seine ; the other is the Sure, or Sauer, which is born in the gorges of the Ardennes, winds through the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and is finally swal- lowed up by the German Moselle. The Meuse, Maes, or Maas, and the Schelde,
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