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Yorksh., Engl., near Bradford 7928. 4400. [and wine-growing dist., 7347. ing and gold-mining dist., 1500. and In vera ray 6 m. by m. on N., Peru on S Brazil on E., and the Pacific on W.; double United, Kingdom in extent; 16 provs.; traversed by Andes (Chimb or azo, 21,424 ft.) and by tributs. of Amazon cap. Quito, on Equator (whence name of State) Galapagos; Isis, belong to E.; language, Spanish;; Ro. Catholic; 1,271.861. See cheese 6000. [lighthouse, 168 ft. berland to Solway, 65 m.; (2) affl. of Medway, Kent (3) m Scotl., Fife, pa es T Cupar to St. Andrews Bay, N.S.W., 18; (4) 283 affl. m. of S.W. weed, Sydney 3*4 m. dist., below 1526. Kelso; also [2300. t. Charles I. and Parliamentary forces, Oct. 23, 1642. of Maria Edge worth 840. S. side of Frith of W Forth on N,, Linlithgowshire or W. Lothian on.and sundry cos. on E. and S.; 362 sq. m. traversed by Pentland and Moorfoot Hills; paper-works,; coal and iron-mining, shale works 444.055; also c. cap. of co. and of Scotl.; m. from; Leith, its port, on Frith of Forth, 42 m. E. Glasgow and 396 m. N. London perhaps the most picturesquely situated city in the; world, and po e ed of everything that goes to make a great capital; 261,261. [watering-place; dist., 1430. birthpl. of Thomson, poet, Sept. 11, 1700 613. c. ILL. 19 m. N. St. Louis 3561.; cap. Abbeokuta. [Prague; 11,781. of Runnymede, where King John signed Magna Charta, June 15, 12x5. [works; near is Eglinton Castle. North Isl. almost a perfect cone; perpetual snow. haven 6243; also t. Cheshire, 2 m. N.W. Birken head; tm N., Nubia on S., Barca and the Lybian Desert on W., and Red Sea and Isthmus of Suez on E.; E. Proper consists of the Nile Delta (so named from the Greek letter A), whose greatest breadth is 150 m. and the Nile Valley as far up as AKASHE, 70 m. of Wady Haifa; 750 in. in length, and from 8 m. 10 m. broad the area—including oases in desert, Nubia, Red; Sea coast to Ras Kasar, no in. S. Suakim, and the Sinai Peninsula and Land of Midian in Arabia— is nearly 500,000 sq. m. (more than 4 times United Kingdom), but of this only 13,000 sq. m. arc cultivated and settled, and populated as densely Belgium or Britain; dry and barren but for Nile inundations caused by tropical rains, which begin Tune, culminate in September, and subside at end November; PYRAMIDS OF E., largest 763 ft. sq. base and 460 ft. high, supposed to have been sepulchres of Egyptian kings, are a few miles from Cairo; language, Arabic; religion, Mahommedan.but 150,000 are Coptic Christians, descended from the ancient Egyptians E. is tributary to Turkey, paving the Sultan £670,000; a year, and bound to supply troops to Turkey in event of war, but in all other respects independent under Khedive under British administration; extensive annexations; of Baker and Gordon abandoned as sources of weakne to the govt.; 6,817,265.