Flanders, or the Spanish Netherlands, most accurately described shewing the several provinces, their bounds, dimensions, rivers ... and a large and exact description of the cities and who they are at present subject to : with a large and useful index of the cities ... rivers &c. in such a manner as may serve for a geographical dictionary for these parts : extraordinary necessary for the right understanding of these parts, the present wars and encampment of the Confederate and French armies.

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Title: Flanders, or the Spanish Netherlands, most accurately described shewing the several provinces, their bounds, dimensions, rivers ... and a large and exact description of the cities and who they are at present subject to : with a large and useful index of the cities ... rivers &c. in such a manner as may serve for a geographical dictionary for these parts : extraordinary necessary for the right understanding of these parts, the present wars and encampment of the Confederate and French armies.
Author: Echard, Laurence, 1670?-1730.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Salusbury ...,; 1691.
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Tournay.

TOurnay, or Dornick, is on all sides surrounded with Fruitful and Pleasant Fields, and thorough the midst of it, under divers Bridges, runs the River Schelde, which in this place be∣gins to be Navigable. It is a very strong place, and has a Noble Castle. It is a place of great Note, as well for its Antiquity, as for its being furni∣shed with People, Traffick, and hand∣some Buildings; among which are se∣veral stately Churches and Religious Houses, and also Honoured with an Episcopal See; taken by the French in the year 1667. This Town stands 30 Miles nigh South of Ghent, and 24 North West of Mons.