Maestricht, capital of Dutch Limburg, on the Maes, 57 m. E. of Brussels; has manufactures of glass, earthenware, and carpets; near it are the vast subterranean quarries of the Pietersberg, opened by the Romans.
Population (circa 1900) given as 33,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mæonides * Maeterlinck, Maurice