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THE NETHERLANDS. 



Northern Holland, and stretching even beyond the Rhine, where the Peel, a quaking 

 meadow in Brabant, has not been wholly reclaimed. Mosses and heather are 



Fig. 248.— Hypsographical Map of the Netherlands. 

 Scale 1 : 2,500,000. 



20 Miles. 



Below the Level of the Sea. 



Beyond 32 feet. 83 to Sifeet. Less than 33/ert. 



Ahove the Level of the Sea. 



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Leas than S3 feel. WtoSTfeet. S2tolGifeet. Wi toinSfeet. Over 3iSfeei. 



the characteristic vegetation of these bog lands, but the trunks of pines and other 

 trees discovered in the peat prove that in a former age they were clothed with 



