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Léandre DESMAISIÈRES - Flooding of the Scheldt and the Lys. Report of the commission set up for the purpose of researching and presenting to the Department of Public Works the measures that should be taken to remedy the extraordinary flooding of the banks of the Scheldt and its tributaries. S.l.s.n., n.d. [ca. 1845]. In-folio, half-basane, cardboard dishes (missing on the back rubbed and passed). 2], 142, [6] pp. 1 blackboard and 10 coloured folding maps: Antoing, Tournay, map of the Scheldt at Oudenaarde, Commines, Menin, Kortrijk, map of Ghent (small tear without loss), basin of Bruges (small tear without loss), general map of the Scheldt basin (small tear without loss), basin of Ostend. < Léandre Desmaisières set up, as Minister of Public Works, a commission to find ways to stop the floods. He then became Governor of East Flanders and also became chairman and later rapporteur of this committee. His report to the Government concluded that the Schipdonk Canal should be dug, and it was therefore decided [...]'.
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