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Show The Zuydsr Zee. Tho Zuyder Zee, or Southorn sen, was formerly n loko surrounded by fens and marshes, Its presont extent being chiefly tho reuult of floods which occurred In tho thirteenth cent .ry. Its area Is about two thousand snuaro miles and tho ovcrur.o depth from ton to nineteen feet. It has always heon tho work of tho Hollanders to recover as murh as possible of tho laud lost to them In this manner In past ages, and In tho llfpral peneo they can be said to havo ir.ndo half their country, hav log reclaimed over ono million oero from sea, Infco and riror slnco the six Month century. -..-. - ---' |