Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1891. The Zuider Zee.
, '♦ At the north of Holland, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, there was an immense lake, but the North Sea at that period broke through, the coast line and transferred it into a large gulf, which is now known as the Zuider Zee. Right along the northern coast, the Friesian Islands form a dotted outline of the original boundary of the land. The Dutch, as is well known, i are most capable men in all descriptions of reclamation, and water works, and they are credited with having made a large part of their kingdom out of the dominions of the Bea. Our cable news informs us that the Dutch Cabinet proposes to take up in earnest the oft-talked draining of the Zuider Zee, and if they do so we may fairly expect that they will be successful. In 1875 the Dutch Chamber voted 9£ million pounds to reclaim a portion of this gulf, and by erecting a dyke 26 teet high and 25 miles long they are said to have added 759 square miles of i land to their country.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 August 1891, Page 2
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189Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1891. The Zuider Zee. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 August 1891, Page 2
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