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flood generally overflows considerable portions of the region. In the parts which are especially liable to inundation, as, for example, the villages of Lehde, Leipe and See also:

BURG

Burg, many of the homesteads are built each on a little self-contained See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, approachable in summer only by See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat, and in See also:

winter over the See also:

ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice. In spite of its marshy character the Spreewald is in See also:

PART

part cultivated, in part converted into pasturage, and almost everywhere, but more especially in the See also:

LOWER

lower districts, wooded like a See also:

park, the predominant trees being willows. Fishing, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-breeding and the growing of vegetables, more particularly small pickling cucumbers, are the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief occupations of the See also:

PEOPLE

people, about 30,000 in all. In See also:

GREAT

great part they are of Wendish See also:

BLOOD

blood, and though the See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority have been Germanized, there is a small See also:

RESIDUE (through the French, from the Lat. residuum, a remainder, from residere, to remain)

residue who have faithfully preserved their See also:

NATIONAL

national speech, customs, and their own See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar styles of See also:

DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress.

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