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| | Maps of Ostfriesland from MrJumbo |
 | | On Christmas Day in 1717 a horrific flood struck the North Sea coast, from Denmark all the way down to Amsterdam, breaching dikes and inundating hundreds of miles of lowlying farmland. |
 | | 1717, in der heiligen Christ-Nacht, mit unzählichen Schaden und Verlust vieler tausend Menschen einen großentheil derer Hertzogth. |
 | | Geographical presentation of the horrible WATER FLOOD in LOWER GERMANY, which on December 25th, 1717, on the holy Christian night, with uncountable damage and loss of many thousands of lives, mostly inundated the Duchies of HOLSTEIN and BREMEN, and the counties of OLDENBURG, FRIESLAND, GRÖNINGEN and NORTH HOLLAND, 1720 |
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