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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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, the precise orderli-ness of Berlin, the artistic beauty of Wash-ington, or the quaintness of The Hague. Itis one of those cities that began in antiquityand grew without any special plan, absorbingin its expansion many other towns. Yet,when one considers the business and indus-trial interests centered there, the influence ofthe city in world politics, the ships that sailinto its port from lands the wide world over,and its historic and literary traditions, oneis compelled to agree with Mr. Holmes whenhe calls it the most important place on earth.For a thousand intimate pictures of thismammoth city, pictures not to be found ingeographies or books of travel, one shouldread the novels of Charles Dickens. Location and Extent. London is locatedin the southeastern part of England, on bothbanks of the Thames River, which runsthrough the city iiTegularly from west toeast. As it is situated at the head of tide-water, between forty and fifty miles from themouth of the Thames, London has many of
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the advantages of a city on the coast. Thereis more than one method of reckoning thearea and population of the great capital.What is known as Greater London—consist-ing of the eitj^, the administrative countyof London and numerous outlying villages—is a place of 7,251,358 inhabitants (censusof 1911), and covers an area of nearly 700square miles. It includes all the territorywithin a radius of about fourteen miles fromTrafalgar Square. Greater London, there-fore, is the largest municipality in the world. The part officially called the City of Lon-don, lying on the north bank of the river,covers slightly more than a square mile. Itis a separate municipality, having a civiccorporation of its own, at the head of whichis the lord mayor of London. In this sectionare located the offices of the important indus-trial and commercial companies and the largefinancial institutions. The resident popula-tion, consisting of policemen, janitors, etc.,was 20,000 in 1911. The city and thecounty of L

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