a river which rises in the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambrai, 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 Ooster-Scheld, which runs by Bergen-op-Zoom, and afterwards between the islands Beveland and Schouwen, and a little below falls into the sea.