. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 4° 20 4°25' 1 Mile. Belle-Alliance ; the farm of Haie-Sainte ; the village of Mont St. Jean; and the hollow road which proved so disastrous to the retreating French. Brussels, in French Bruxelles, in Flemish Brussel, is situate nearly in the centre of the kingdom of which it is the capital, close to the linguistic boundary separating Wallons from Flemings, and almost on the margin of the plain which stretches from the sea to the hilly region of Belgium. Its beginnings are traced to a castle built upon a swampy island (brocksele) of the Senne, but as
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 4° 20 4°25' 1 Mile. Belle-Alliance ; the farm of Haie-Sainte ; the village of Mont St. Jean; and the hollow road which proved so disastrous to the retreating French. Brussels, in French Bruxelles, in Flemish Brussel, is situate nearly in the centre of the kingdom of which it is the capital, close to the linguistic boundary separating Wallons from Flemings, and almost on the margin of the plain which stretches from the sea to the hilly region of Belgium. Its beginnings are traced to a castle built upon a swampy island (brocksele) of the Senne, but as early as the eleventh century the nascent city had been surrounded Avith a wall, and had become a stage on the road leading from Flanders to the Ehine. A century later the Dukes of Brabimt
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