A Manual Of Belgium And The Adjoining

Author : Great Britain; Naval Intellige Division
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ISBN 13 : 9781331085553
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book A Manual of Belgium and the Adjoining Territories (Classic Reprint) written by Great Britain; Naval Intellige Division and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual of Belgium and the Adjoining Territories This volume, together with its companion atlas, is, in the first instance, a geographical study of Belgium. The subjects dealt with are those on which geography has had a powerful influence, such as the composition and distribution of the population, history, agriculture, mining and manufactures, communications and trade. Certain social questions have also been treated in outline, as hardly separable from the subjects above mentioned. In the main, however, the following chapters aim not at solving social or political problems, but at stating economic and geographical facts, apart from which no solution of such questions is possible. Belgium has - except for her forty odd miles of seaboard - no natural frontiers. It was therefore desirable to go beyond her political frontiers and carry the description to the nearest natural boundaries. Roughly speaking, the boundaries adopted have been: (a) a line from Cap Gris-nez to Verdun, following at first the watershed of the Artois plateau and then that between the basins of the Meuse and Seine; (b) a direct line from Verdun to Metz; (c) the course of the Moselle to Coblenz and of the Rhine to the North Sea. We thus include a considerable strip of northern France, the whole Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Rhine Province of Prussia so far as that lies west of the Rhine and Moselle, with a fragment of the Reichsland west of Metz and Thionville; and a part of southern Holland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.