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Title: The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, ed
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Sully and Kleinteich
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Anglesey are soclose to the mainland that they almost touch the coast. The coast is constantly changing. JMany old towns, such as Ra-venspur in Yorkshire—where Bolingbroke, afterward Henry IV,landed in 1399—are now submerged; and it is a common occurrencefor the pedestrian rambling over the cliffs of Kent, Yorkshire, orSussex to find the path ending abruptly, interrujited by a precipice.In some places the action of the waves is so rapid that the changesmay be followed from week to week. Over a distance of thirty-sixmiles between Bridlington and Kilnsea, sajs Professor Phillips, thematerials which fall from the wasting cliff are sorted by the tide; thewhole shore is in motion; every cliff is hastening to its fall; the par-ishes are contracted, the churches wasted away. As regards physical structure, England has been described as anepitome of the geology of almost the whole of Euroije. Nearly allthe formations of the earths crust, from the Silurian upward to the ENGLAND & WALES
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Jo^oi Prrt^lr**^-^* A Co. 308 THE BRITISH EMPIRE 309 most recent deposits, are found in layers in different parts of thecountry—mainly in order from north to south. In conformity with the geological structure of England, its moun-tains lie in the north and west, rolling gently toward the center andsouth. The Cheviot Hills, running almost directly east and west,form a gentle natural boundary between England and Scotland. Their highest summit, Cheviot Peak in Northumberland, rises2,676 feet above the sea. This chain merges southwestward into themountain ranges of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and Avithinthese ranges is the celebrated Lake District, where lie the only notablelakes in England, the largest of which, Windermere, covers onlyeight square miles. From the Cheviots the Pennine Range runs atright angles, continuing south into Der))yshire, where the famousPeak rises (2,088 feet), five miles northwest of Castleton, with itscelebrated caverns. South of the Peak district extends the

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