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Oh, for some small side canal into which we could slip and somehow disappear! As my eyes searched the waste of green water and the low coasts of Beveland, all unexpectedly to me we rounded a point, and there was a half-hidden town, one graceful spire seeming to beckon where safety lay. "It's Veere," said Alb. "You're sure to have heard of it: all artists have.
The town of Tergoes was the chief city of South Beveland, the most important part of this archipelago, but South Beveland had not always been an island.
We could go outside and up the channel between the island and Beveland, and then up the Eastern Scheldt to Bergen-op-Zoom; but instead of that we shall follow the western channel, which is more direct." "It is as flat as our Essex coast," Geoffrey remarked. "Aye, and flatter; for the greater part of the land lies below the level of the sea, which is only kept out by great dams and dykes.
I'm bound to get you out of this scrape if I can." Never was sound more melodious in my ears than the quickening throb of the motor. I felt intimate and at home with it, as with the beating of my own heart. On we went, pounding along at recovered speed, and were well into the channel between North and South Beveland, but there also was "Wilhelmina."
Schouwen on the one hand, Tholen on the other, seemed to fall apart as Brederode cast us upon the broad bosom of the Oster Scheldt, steering for North Beveland, and told us legends the while of that strange archipelago which has for its arms a lion swimming in deep waters.
The town of Tergoes was the chief city of South Beveland, the most important part of this archipelago, but South Beveland had not always been an island.
The island of South Beveland shared the same fate toward the middle of the fourteenth century, the island of Tholen suffered in the year 1825 of our century, the island of Walcheren in 1808, and in the capital of Middelburg, although it is several miles distant from the coast, the water was up to the roofs."
We were sailing between the island of South Beveland and the strip of land forming the left bank of the Scheldt, which is called Flanders of the States, or Flemish Zealand. The history of this piece of land is very curious. To a foreigner the entrance of Holland is like the first page of a great epic entitled, The Struggle with the Sea.
If he ever comes to Holland, we shall be glad to see him in our residence at South Beveland. There is her message to you, repeated word for word." "I am glad she is going to live out of England." "Why? Surely you have no reason to fear her?" "None whatever." "You are thinking, perhaps, of somebody else?" I was thinking of the Minister; but it seemed to be safest not to say so.
By a remarkable feat of arms the veteran Spanish commander Mondragon had, October, 1572, reconquered several of the Zeeland islands. His men on one occasion at ebb-tide marched across the channel which lies between South Beveland and the mainland, the water reaching up to their necks.
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