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MEUSE (Flem. Maes, Du. Maas)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 316 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEUSE (Flem. Maes, Du. Maas) , a river rising at Pouilly, in the department of Haute
Marne
 , France. After passing through a
great
 
part
  of Belgium and Holland it flows into the Waal channel of the Rhine at Fort Loevenstein. A few miles below
Gorinchem
  the Meuse, or Waal as it is then called, divides into two branches. The northern flows almost due west, and joins the Lek (Rhine) above Rotterdam, and enters the North Sea at the Hook of Holland. Ocean-going steamers for Rotterdam use, however, the New Waterway (Nieuwe Waterweg), a little north of the Meuse. The southern branch turns
south
 , crosses the marsh of Biesbosch by the canalized channel of New Merwede, enters the Hollandsch Diep, at14 reaches the sea by the arms called Haringvliet and Krammer.
The length of the Meuse is nearly 56o m., of which 36o are navigable, and probably its
traffic
  is only exceeded by that of the Rhine. Near Bazeilles it disappears under ground for a distance of over 3 M. The Chiers, the Semois, the Lesse, the Sambre, the Ourthe and the Roer are its most important tributaries. In Belgium it is canalized between Liege and Vise, and the Dutch are engaged on the same operation below Maestricht. The
principal
  towns on the Meuse are: in France, Verdun,
Sedan
 ,
Mezieres
  and Givet; in Belgium, Dinant, Namur, Huy, Liege and Maeseyck; in Holland, Maestricht, Roermond, Venlo,
Dordrecht
  and Rotterdam.


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