. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . tormson an average every eleven years. It was not, therefore,only the cost of building the dikes which had to be borne,but the heavy yearly expense of keeping them up. How Holland Grew Larger.—The way in whichHolland has grown in size by indiking, within the lifetimeof people now living, is one of the wonders of Europeanhistory. Just before Queen Victoria came to the thronethe area of the kingdom was 13,083 square miles. To-dayit is 15,274.* Holland has grown not only as t
. A free farmer in a free state: a study of rural life and industry and agricultural politics in an agricultural country . tormson an average every eleven years. It was not, therefore,only the cost of building the dikes which had to be borne,but the heavy yearly expense of keeping them up. How Holland Grew Larger.—The way in whichHolland has grown in size by indiking, within the lifetimeof people now living, is one of the wonders of Europeanhistory. Just before Queen Victoria came to the thronethe area of the kingdom was 13,083 square miles. To-dayit is 15,274.* Holland has grown not only as the result of forcing backthe sea and of compelling the rivers to keep their channels,she has extended the area available for agriculture by meansof a drainage system made possible by the application in thefifteenth century of the discovery that water could be liftedby means of windmills. Canals were made above the levelof the land, and windmill-pumped water from low-lying • The Encyclopaedia Britannica, by a mistake, states thatfrom 1833 to 1877 the area of the country increased from 8,768 to12,731 square miles !. SPECIMENS OF TOPIARY WORKAt a Nursery made in a mere ( Terra Nova
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