Show the tho late inundation in holland I 1 have just says a correspondent of oatlie the duty duly mews mems arting sr ting from Amster amsterdam darA on the of february boom a visit to the inundated district itrice of maas jaas and waal Wa alanda and a more sad eiding scene acae of desolation it is difficult to conc conceive 4 ve B tw en those two rivers were about forty villages pa most of them populous and about acres acrea of cultivated land and the greatel part of this district lies ilea 1 under der water the vast ast i ice less ass masses ess which dashed th through rugh ruah the breach of the dyke a breach nearly a quarter of a mile in ien fen length th destroy destroying ine inc whatever houses or barns impeded their p ogress have now much diminished in extent though for some time after the waters had begun to subside they lay about in huge huh 0 accumulations miniature icebergs As w we e pa parsed ased through the village of leuwen leu w en knee deep in mud and slush the evid evidence e nce of this fearful desolation were everywhere visible here the ruins of a cottage whose e walls wails had been beaten down by the ice or undermined by the flood there the remains of a barn reeling over into the submerged meadow the carcases of ef drowned cattle and hild domestic animals lay half buried in the oozy surface of the fields while in the cottages not beaten down by the floods were many rachels weeping for their children and refusing to be co comforted because they were not several entire households were swept away by the force with which the tile rushing waters burst through I 1 h the dyke whilst few families have not to mourn the loss iosa of some of their members the dyke is now being repaired and it is thought that in a few weeks the waters will have entirely disappeared but it will be several months before the houseless ho useless laborers or of this district can return to their toil the national subscription on the produced about a million guilders builders guil ders whilst a similar amount had been previously collected for the relief of the numerous sufferers suu erera from the unexampled inundation |