. The earth and its inhabitants .. . DEPTH IB FEET _______ HalfaMUe. feet, irrespectively of 53,000 million cubic feet annually arising from surplus rains. The new polder will be intersected by 2,500 miles of roads and 27,340 miles of canals and drains. Its area will be 486,000 acres, its cost £16,000,000, or £33 an acre ; not a large amount, if we bear in mind that four-fifths of the land to be recovered consist of fertile clayey soil. A bolder scheme still than that of draining the Zuider Zee advocates the union of all the islands of Zealand with the mainland, by embanking and draining the e
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . DEPTH IB FEET _______ HalfaMUe. feet, irrespectively of 53,000 million cubic feet annually arising from surplus rains. The new polder will be intersected by 2,500 miles of roads and 27,340 miles of canals and drains. Its area will be 486,000 acres, its cost £16,000,000, or £33 an acre ; not a large amount, if we bear in mind that four-fifths of the land to be recovered consist of fertile clayey soil. A bolder scheme still than that of draining the Zuider Zee advocates the union of all the islands of Zealand with the mainland, by embanking and draining the estuaries, with the exception of three, which are to form outlets for the Maas, the Rhine, and the Schelde. If realised, Holland would not only gain a large extent of cultivable land, but would at the same time secure better water highways.
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