Show A country like a sh ps hold holland as a whole is probably the lowest country in the world the great er part of it lying many feet below the sea level the annual expenditure on ates to keep out the water is esti mated at 2 00 the constantly imminent nature of ftfe danger will be thoroughly appreciated by the stranger says baedeker if he stands at the foot of the great dykes af high tide and hears the breakers dashing against the other side of the barrier at a height of sixteen or eighteen feet above his head the force of the old dutch proverb god made the sea we made the bhore will also be apparent the principal canals are six feet in depth and not only the surface of the water but the bed of the canal is often considerably aboe the level of the surrounding country |