Photo and copyright by Underwood & Underwood 

 ANTWERP : THE TEMPORARY CAPITAL OE BELGIUM 



View looking north along- the River Scheldt, where shipping once made Antwerp Europe's 

 richest commercial port. All of Antwerp's vast commerce must reach the sea through the 

 Scheldt River, whose lower course and mouth lie in Holland. Under the treat}' or 1839 all 

 Antwerp shipping had to pay toll to Holland. In 1863 Belgium and the other interested 

 nations agreed to commute this by paying a lump sum of $7,200,000 to the Dutch. 



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