Excerpt from Birthright, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other TalesFew districts in Europe are more devoid of local interest than the frontier-country between Belgium and France: especially at its maritime extremity, towards Western Flanders, where dykes and ditches, and an ill-favoured, aguish lookin g population a¿'ord incontrovertible testi mony to the fenny nature of the soil. In that ¿at and dreary landscape, Where a canal becomes an interesting feature, and a ¿ax-ground or tobacco field a towerin g plantation, - though the fertility of the reclaimed land is such as at least to secure the traveller agamst incurring the hatred of the benevolent Yorick by declaring all barreh.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.