. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OP THE ELBE AND WESER, ETC. 277 square miles, but history hardly alludes to it since without telling us about some dreadful irruption of the sea. In the seventeenth century Borkum still had its seaport, its commercial fleet manned by natives of the island, and productive farms. It is a mere shadow now of its former self. Wangerooge was well cultivated up to 1840, when an incursion of the sea reduced it to a mere sand- bank. The other islands present no more favourable picture. Inhabited by a few fishermen, they would long ago have been wash
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PLAINS OP THE ELBE AND WESER, ETC. 277 square miles, but history hardly alludes to it since without telling us about some dreadful irruption of the sea. In the seventeenth century Borkum still had its seaport, its commercial fleet manned by natives of the island, and productive farms. It is a mere shadow now of its former self. Wangerooge was well cultivated up to 1840, when an incursion of the sea reduced it to a mere sand- bank. The other islands present no more favourable picture. Inhabited by a few fishermen, they would long ago have been washed away by the sea, if reeds had not been planted to consolidate their sands. Norderney is the only one of Fig. 158.—NoiiDEiixEV, Baltrum, and the Neighiîourixg Coast. Scale 1: 200, 5 Miles. these islands which exhibits traces of life during the fine season, when it is much frequented for its sea baths. Ncuwerk, a small fortified island at the mouth of the Elbe, is an outlying remnant of the ancient coast. Farther away from the land lies the famous island of Heligoland, certainly within German waters, though occupied since 1808 by England. At that time Heligoland was of considerable strategical importance, for its crescent-shaped sand-bank afforded shelter to men-of-war. This bank is known as the " Brunnen," a word supposed to mean shield. It forms a kind of natural breakwater, and there can be no doubt that up to the close of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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