one of the seven United Provinces or States of Holland, wholly surrounded by Holland and Guelderland, excepting a small part of it that borders on the Zuider Zee. Its greatest length is about 32 miles, and breadth about 22. It enjoys a good air; and in most places the soil is fruitful, but in some sandy, or what is called turf-ground, and in others overrun with wood. It is watered by the Leek, Rhine, Vecht, and other smaller rivers, besides several canals; of which that extending from the village of Vreewyk to Utrecht is one of the chief.

in Latin Ultrajectum, Trajectum vetus or inferius, or Trajectum Rheni, capital of a province of the same name, so called from its ancient ferry or palage here over the Rhine; the word being compounded of trecht, which in Dutch signifies "a ferry," and oud