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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 1 1 Browse Search
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in with stones faced with clay and revetted with gabions of rushes, willows, etc. The slope to the sea is from 1 rise to 4 base down to 1 in 13. The history of these works is one of gradually increasing strength and solidity, with heroism and pertinacity wonderful to relate. The accidents by which the sea has again and again claimed its own have swept away whole provinces and communities. A flood in 1277 formed the present Gulf of Dort and overwhelmed forty-four villages. The flood of 1287 overwhelmed 80,000 persons, and gave the Zuyder Zee its present bounds. Another storm in the sixteenth century destroyed 100,000 persons. The Haarlem Lake is the latest of the great reclamations. The cost of rendering habitable and cultivable the 51,300 acres was $3,330,000, about $65 per acre. Previously to undertaking this colossal work, the Zind Plass, of nearly 11,500 acres, had been reclaimed at a cost of $1,250,000, not far from $110 per acre. Among the most celebrated of dikes