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DKSTTvUCTTON OF NORTITSTRAND 



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i es s than 10,000 of the inhabitants of Eiderstede and Dit- 

 niarscli perished; and on the 11th of October, 1634, the 

 islands and the whole coast, as far as Jutland, suffered by a 

 dreadful deluge. 



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Northstrand 



Fig. 57. 



Line of coast from the north of Holland to the Baltic, showing the position 



of islands which have suffered waste in the historical period. 



map 



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North 



rid, a highly culti- 

 vated and populous district. It measured from nine to eleven 

 geographical miles from north to south, and six to eight 



