Great Britain

Largest, wealthiest, and most populous island of Europe; in the Atlantic, off w. coast of Continental Europe, separated from it by the North Sea, Strait of Dover, the English Channel. Its area is 83.826 sq. m., its extreme length 608 m. The surface is generally level or undulating in the south, hilly and even mountainous in the north. The coast has many rivers which are navigable for long distances inland. is very broken, affording many excellent harbors. The island It is divided into England, Scotland, and Wales, which with Ireland and the adjacent islands form the United Kingdom. one of the strongest of European powers, the first in wealth, manufactures, and commerce. It has an area of 120,973 sq. m. Pop., 1891, 38,104,973. An average of 315 per sq. m. lati on is distributed among its principal subdivisions as follows: The popuWales, 1,518,914. Its agricultural industry, never extensive, is England, 27,483,490; Ireland, 4,704.750: Scotland, 4,025,647; sale methods of America and the Colonies. Its manufactures diminishing under competition with the cheap lands and whole are enormous and most varied, consisting principally of cotton, iron, and steel. Its mineral products, mainly coal and iron, are very great, the total value for 1892 being $411,753,800. The amount of coal mined was 181,786,871 tons, and of iron ore 11.312,675 tons. The exports, 1893, were $1,387,159,205, and the imports $2,025,338,450. The merchant marine consisted (1892) of 21,528 ve els with a total tonnage of 8,644,754. Its railroads had an extent in the same year of 20,325 m., and its canals 3,813 m. The United Kingdom has colonial po e ions in all parts of the world, and their population added to that of the home country make this the greatest people numerically in the world. The following are the principal colonial po e ions 1891: IMG:content-0387.jpg:[graphic] Gibraltar Malta Grayling: 1. Æsche (Thymallus vulgar is ); 2. Saibling ( Salmo salve lin us ). It is brilliantly colored, has no teeth on the tongue, and is intermediate between Whitefish and Trout. It inhabits clear, cold brooks.