Dredge, Drain, Reclaim
The Art of a Nation
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Spade Work
Holland — the Netherlands — may be said to be a sand and mud dump left over from the ice age. When the Polar ice-cap, covering the North of Europe to a line roughly from Hull to Amsterdam, began to recede for ...
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Masters of the Floods
According to the experts now examining the soil which has been laid dry, about seven hundred years ago the Zuiderzee was a freshwater lake. The salinity started to increase only about 1300 A.D. after the sea h...
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Dredgers’ Work
Holland may be compared to a ship floating in the sea. The salt water is ever ready to ooze in.
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Book
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Chapter
Dredgers’ Work
Holland may be compared to a ship floating in the sea. The salt water is ever ready to ooze in.
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Chapter
Spade Work
Holland — the Netherlands — may be said to be a sand and mud-dump left over from the ice-periods. When the Polar ice-cap, covering the North of Europe to a line roughly from Hull to Amsterdam began to recede f...
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Chapter
Masters of the Floods
According to the experts now examining the soil which has been laid dry, about seven hundred years ago the Zuiderzee was a freshwater lake. The salinity started to increase only about 1300 A.D. after the sea h...
