Approximate Overall Size 7 X 10 1/2 inches
(17.7 x 26.5 cm.)
Published for a circa 1880s Elisee Reclus geography publication.
CONDITION: Excellent Condition. Image is clean, clear, sharp with beautiful detail. There is TEXT ON FRONT AND REVERSE SIDE. Printed on cream color coated paper. HAARLEM LAKE (Dutch Harlemmer Meer), a commune of the province of North Holland, constituted by the law of the 16th of July 1855. It has an area of about 46,000 acres. As its name indicates, the commune was formerly a lake, which is said to have been a relic of a northern arm of the Rhine which passed through the district in the time of the Romans. In 1531 the Haarlemmer Meer had an area of 6430 acres, and in its vicinity were three smaller sheets of waterthe Leidsche Meer or Leiden Lake, the Spiering Meer, and the Oude Meer or Old Lake, with a united area of about 7600 acres. The four lakes were formed into one by successive inundations, whole villages disappearing in the process, and by 1647 the new Haarlem Lake had an area of about 37,000 acres, which a century later had increased to over 42,000 acres |
