river which rises on the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambrai, Valenciennes, Tournay, Oudenaarde, &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 Weter-Scheld, which separates Flanders from Zealand, 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 in the sea.