SCHELD, a river which rises on the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambay, Valenciennes, Tournay, Oudenarde, &c. and receiving the Lis at Ghent, runs east by Dendermond, and then north to Antwerp: below which city it divides into two branches, one called the Wester-Scheld, which separates Flanders from Zeeland, and discharges itself into the sea near Flushing; and the other called the Oster-Scheld, which runs by Bergen-op-zoom, and afterwards between the islands Beveland and Schouwen, and a little below falls in the sea.