a river which rises on the confines of Picardy, and runs north-east by Cambrai, Valenciennes, Tournay, and Oudenarde, and receiving the Lis at Ghent, runs east by Dendermonde, and then north to Antwerp. Below this city it divides into two branches, one called the Wester Scheldt, which separates Flanders from Zeeland, and discharges itself into the sea near Flushing; and the other called the Ooster-Scheldt, which runs by Bergen-op-Zoom, and afterwards between the islands Beveland and Schoven, and a little below falls into the sea.