Note 209-4 — Chapter I

Origin of the gulf of Dollart in Friesland, 2½ square miles in area between 1177 and 1287; and of Biesboch of 2 square miles in 1421. On the repeated destruction of lands in Schleswig by inundations, see Thaarup, Dänische Statistik, I, 180 seq. It is a remarkable fact that in relation to the Mediterranean, Strabo, VII, 293, considers all such accounts fables.