THE ZUYDER ZEE.
The Zuyder Zee, or Southern Sea, was formerly a lake surrounded by fens and marshes, its present extent bejng chiefly the result of floods which occurred in the thirteenth century. Its area is about two thousand square miles, and the average depth from ten to nineteen feet. It has always been the work of the Hollanders to recover as much as possble of the land lost to them in this manner in past ages, •and in the literal senso they can be said to have made half their country, having reclaimed over one million acres from sea, lake, and river sinco the sixteenth century.
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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 327, 30 June 1914, Page 6
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107THE ZUYDER ZEE. Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 327, 30 June 1914, Page 6
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