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Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century and After, 19-20, Vol. 62: A Monthly Review; July-December, 1907
Through the cluster of the Danish islands and sandbanks which almost close the Kattegat, three narrow and tortuous passages lead to the Baltic. These are the Great Belt, the Little Belt, and the Sound, and these passages - especially the Little Belt, which in parts is less than a thousand yards wide - have rather the appearance of meandering rivers or canals than Of sea straits such as the Strait of Gibraltar. SO tightly is the Kattegat closed by the Danish Islands, that the Baltic is rather a fresh water lake filled by the rivers of north eastern Europe and fortuitously connected with the sea than a part Of the sea itself. Therefore the Baltic has practically no tides, and the percentage Of salt contained in the water is infinitesimal and in parts nil. 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.
