BELGIAN BLACK COUNTRY.
Mous, Charleroi, and Liege, in addition to their strategic value, are the centres of the Belgian Black Country, which Is one of the most remarkable districts in Europe. Over quite a small area there are scattered hundreds of engineering works, large and small, mines, collieries, and other industrial establishments. The district is so thickly populated that one Is never more than a short distance from a busy centre, and the villages and towns merge into each other to such an extent that the traveller's impression is that of a single huge straggling town with innumerable suburbs. But even more remarkable than this agglomeration is the fact that everywhere the hand of nature is to be seen. Possibly in no other part of the world do industry and agriculture flourish alongside to quite the same extent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1316, 27 October 1914, Page 4
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138BELGIAN BLACK COUNTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1316, 27 October 1914, Page 4
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