a river which rises on the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambrey, Valenciennes, Tourmay, Oudenaerde, &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 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 Schowen, and a little below falls in the sea.