| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1880 - 512 pages
...Drenthe, Overijseel, Geldcrland, Utrecht, North and South Holland, Zeeland, North Brabant, and Limburg. It is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the east by Germany, and on the south by Belgium. The soil consists of, 1st, the western continuation of... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1839 - 880 pages
...many sanguinary struggles into which it lias been so frequently plunged. (Ï). THE KINGDOM OF HOLLAND is bounded on the North and West by the North Sea; on the South by the kingdom of Jiclgiiint; and on the East by the kingdom of Нанесет and the Rhenish Dominions... | |
| John Adams (teacher of mathematics.) - 1843 - 166 pages
...Netherlands is now divided into two separate kingdoms, viz., Holland and Belgium. HOLLAND. HOLLAND is bounded on the North and West by the North Sea;...the South by Belgium, and on the East by Germany. — It now consists of the following Provinces, viz., of Holland North, and Holland South, Zealand,... | |
| Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 844 pages
...of 3° 14' and 7° 04' east of Greenwich, and between the parallels of 50° 50' and 53° 30' N. lat. It is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the east by Germany (Hanover and Prussia), and on the south by Belgium. Luxemburg is entirely separated... | |
| William Hughes - 1856 - 746 pages
...SECTION III. HOLLAND. (241.) Boundaries and Extent. — Holland, or the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea,...the south by Belgium, and on the east by Germany. Its average length, from N. to 8., is about 1 50 miles; its mean breadth about 100 miles, diminished... | |
| Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1856 - 834 pages
...canals were most important until the railways were constructed. 69. THE KINGDOM OF HOLLAND is hounded on the North and West by the North Sea ; on the South by the kingdom of Belgium; and on the East by the kingdom of Hanover and the Rhenish Dominions of the... | |
| Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 834 pages
...of 3° 14' and 7° 04' east of Greenwich, and between the parallels of 50° 50' and 53° 30' N. lat. It is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the east by Germany (Hanover and Prussia), and on the south by Belgium. Luxemburg is entirely separated... | |
| William Hughes - Geography - 1860 - 156 pages
...followers of the Eoman Catholic religion. HOLLAND, OR THE NETHERLANDS. BOUNDARIES, &c. — Holland is bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the east by Germany, ancT on the south by Belgium. In size, it is less than one-fourth the area of England... | |
| O F. T - 1866 - 88 pages
...XXTV. HOLLAND. The Kingdom of Holland—formerly called the Netherlands, or low countries—is bounded on the North and West by the North Sea; on the South by Belgium; and on the East by Germany. There are no mountains in Holland, and the land is low, so that in many places it is below the level•... | |
| Rev. J. GOLDSMITH (pseud. [i.e. Sir Richard Phillips.]), sir Richard Phillips - 1868 - 184 pages
...Limburg, and Luxemburg. 89. Holland or the Netherlands, is a small kingdom in the west of Europe, bounded on the north and west by the North Sea, on the south by Belgium, and on the east by Prussia. OBs.—In 1813 Holland and Belgium were united under William Frederick, Prince of Orange,... | |
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