 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 886 էջ
...Calvinism ; but there is a Lutheran congregation in every town of consequence, and among the lower classe?, the Catholics are numerous. The whole province of...prevented from flowing in, by means of dikes and natural sand bonks. These dikes are of great extent, generally 30 feet above the level of the adjoining land,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 էջ
...the chief towns : Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Dort, Delft, Gouda, Alkmaar, Hoom. The national religion is Calvinism ; but there is...prevented from flowing in by means of dikes and natural sand-hanks. The numerous canals and ditches which traverse the province in all directions, are likewise... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 620 էջ
...the chief towns : Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Don, Delft, Gouda, Alkmaar, Hooru. The national religion is Calvinism ; but there is...Holland is a continued flat, and lies so low as to be tinder the level of the sea at high water: the tide is prevented from flowing in by means of dikes... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1831 - 628 էջ
...is a Lutheran congregation in every town of consequence ; and among the lower classes the Gatholite are numerous. The whole province of Holland is a continued...prevented from flowing in by means of dikes and natural sand-bonks. The numerous canals and ditches which traverse the province in all directions, are likewise... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 626 էջ
...Lutheran congregation in every town of consequence ; and among the lower classes the Catholics :tre numerous. The whole province of Holland is a continued...prevented from flowing in by means of dikes and natural sand-lmnks. The numerous canals and ditches which traverse the province in all directions, are likewise... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1831 - 620 էջ
...is Calvinism ; but there is a Lutlieran congregation in every town of consequence ; and .•mioilg the lower classes the Catholics are numerous. The...province of Holland is a continued flat, and lies so ,'nw as to be under tha level of the se,a at high water: the lide is prevented from dowin£ in by means... | |
 | 1847 - 568 էջ
...of power men who had previously figured but as artisans and tradesmen. The whole of North and South Holland is a continued flat, and lies so low as to...flowing in by means of dikes and natural sandbanks. These dikes are of great extent, generally thirty feet above the level of the adjoining land, and mostly... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 էջ
...and its breadth varying from 25 to 40. Area, about 2,150 square miles. De&c. A continued flat, which lies so low as to be under the level of the sea at high water, the tide being prevented from overflowing the country by means of natural sand-banks, or downs, and immense... | |
 | Pictorial geographical reader - 1882 - 264 էջ
...city was taken by the English under Nelson. Holland, or the Netherlands, is a very flat country; it lies so low as to be under the level of the sea at high water, the tide being prevented from over flowing the land by means of artificial mounds called dykes. Canals and ditches... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 478 էջ
...COUNTRY. The name of the province of Holland (the hollow land) indicates the nature of the country. It is a continued flat, and lies so low as to be under the level of the sea at high water. It seems doomed by nature to stagnant waters and everlasting agues, but, by the persevering labour... | |
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Catholics are numerous. The whole province of Holland is a continued flat, and lies so low as to be under the level of the sea at high water: the tide is prevented from flowing in by means of dikes and natural sand-hanks. 