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COAST OF SLESWICK. 



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at different periods throughout the fifteenth century. In 

 1507, a part only of Torum, a considerable town, remained 

 standing ; and in spite of the erection of dams, the remainder 

 of that place, together with market-towns, villages, and 



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monasteries, to the number of fifty, were finally overwhelmed. 

 The new gulf, which was called the Dollart, although small 

 in comparison to the Zuyder Zee, occupied no less than six 

 square miles at first ; but part of this space was, in the course 

 of the two following centuries, again redeemed from the sea. 

 The small bay of Leybucht, farther north, was formed in a 

 similar manner in the thirteenth century ; and the bay of 

 Harlbucht in the middle of the sixteenth. Both of these 

 have since been partially reconverted into dry land. Another 

 new estuary, called the Gulf of Jahde, near the mouth of the 

 Weser, scarcely inferior in size to the Dollart, has been 

 gradually hollowed out since the year 1016, between which 

 era and 1651 a space 

 added to the sea. The 



miles 



rivulet 



very small ; but Arens conjectures that an arm of the Weser 

 had once an outlet in that direction. 



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— Farther north we find so many records 



of waste on the western coast of Sleswick, as to lead us to 

 anticipate that, at no distant period in the history of the 

 physical geogra/phy of Europe, Jutland may become an 



more 



the Baltic. 



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extremity of Jutland has been effected no less than four times 

 within the records of history, the ocean having as often made 

 a breach through the bar of sand, which usually excludes it 



from 



miles 



including its windings, and communicates at its eastern end 

 with the Baltic. The last irruption of salt water happened 



some 



sels of thirty tons' burden passed through. 



Marsh 



mere 



ber, protected by dikes. Some of them, after having been 

 inhabited with security for more than ten centuries, have 

 been suddenly overwhelmed. In this manner, in 1216, no 





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