The New World Geographies: Britain and British tradeH. Milford, 1922 - Geography |
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Page 123 - Channel proudly, with a broom at his masthead to show that he had swept the English from the seas.
Page 7 - The British Isles consist of two large islands, Great Britain and Ireland, and a number of smaller ones.
Page 123 - ... it binding upon the conscience. I have contended that the Ancient Church considered it to be a day of obligation, quite independently of any connexion with the Sabbath, on purely Christian grounds; — that it was not until after the fifth century that this view was materially impaired ; and that it was not until towards the end of the sixteenth century that a Sabbatarian origin was formally proposed instead. I have contended also, that in the Ancient Church nothing like a Sabbatarian view of...
Page 11 - The hours of high water in the British Seas, when noon is the hour of high water at Liverpool. has entered not only through Pentland Firth but also to eastward of the Shetland Isles, is split into two : on the one hand it runs along the coast of Norway into the Skager Rak, and on the other it follows the east coast of Britain to the Thames. Off Britain it brings high water later and later to...
Page 74 - The history of man is sometimes considered in three stages, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, named after the different substances used for making weapons and tools.
Page 5 - cnuld kail het " to give any further account of it in this place. Suggestions and criticisms were offered by Mr. LB Cundall in a paper on " Some difficulties experienced in Meteorological work in schools.
Page 95 - In 1896 India exported indigo to the value of over £3,500,000 ; in 1913 her exports were £60,000.
Page 94 - World contributed cochineal, from the dried bodies of certain insects found in Mexico and Central America, and logwood, the " blood-redwood from Campeachy ", obtained from the forests of Central America and the West Indies.
Page 79 - Leeds has already been referred to as a centre for the manufacture of woollens and machinery used in the woollen industry, but the city is no less important for engineering.
Page 35 - The task was attempted by the Normans, descendants of Vikings who had settled in northern France.