THE SEVEN UNITED PROVINCES; 

 OR HOLLAND. 



EXTENT AND SITUATION. 



Miles. 



Length 105 > hptwepn 5 

 Breadth 120 5 between £ 



Degrees. 



51 20 and 53 30 North latitude, 

 3 30 and 7 East longitude. 



Containing 9400 square miles, with 280 inhabitants to each. 



Name. ...This country was a part of that inhabited by the ancient 

 Batavi : it is usually called Holland, from the name of the chief pro- 

 vince ; which is formed from the German words hohl and land, and sig- 

 nifies a hollow or low country. Since the revolution occasioned by the 

 incursion of the French in 1795, it has taken the name of the Batavian 

 Republic. 



Boundaries. ...It is bounded on the north and west by the German 

 ocean, and the Zuyder sea ; on the east by Germany j and on the 

 south by the Netherlands, or Belgium. 



Divisions... The United Provinces were, properly speaking, eight, 

 viz. Holland, Overyssel, Zealand, Friesland, Utrecht, Groeningen^ 

 Guelderland, and Zutphen ; but the two latter forming only one sove- 

 reignty, they generally are termed the Seven United Provinces. Be- 

 sides these, the Dutch republic contained the county of Drenthe, a kind 

 of separate province in Overyssel, which had no share in the govern- 

 ment ; and what was called the Land of the Generality, or Dutch Bra- 

 bant, Dutch Flanders, and the part of Limburg which belonged to 

 the republic. When the government was changed into a monarchy 

 in 1806, it received the addition of East Friesland on the N. E. and 

 Holland was divided into Amstetland and Maasland. 



The extent and population of these provinces in 1809 are stated as 

 follows in Hassel's Tables : 



Povinces. 



Sq. Miles. 



Population. 



Chief Towns. 



Amstetland . 



. . 960 . 



. 458,000 . 



. Amsterdam. 



Maasland . . 



. . 1296 . 



. 341,978 . 



. Alkmaar. 



Utrecht . . 



. . 513 . 



. 108,820 . 



. Utrecht. 



Zealand . . 



. . 414 . 



. 74",050 . 



. Middleburg 



Brabant . . 



. . 1689 . 



. 207,708 . 



. Bois Ie Due. 



Guelders . . 



. . 2091 . 



. 323,282 . 



. Nimeguen. 



Overyssel . . 



. . 1337 . 



. 135,060 . 



. De venter. 



Drenthe . . 



. . 815 . 



. 39,672 . 



. Zwoll. 



Friesland . . 



. . 1192 . 



. 96,846 . 



. Lemvarden. 



Groningen 



. . 1107 . 



. 103,000 . 



. Groeningen. 



E. Friesland . 



. . 1247 . 



. 133,000 . 



r Embden. 



12,662 2,001,416 



