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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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o or purchased by its royal occupants.In the state apartments we find ourselves surrounded by precious works of art,tastefully displayed to the best advantage. One room contains an unrivalledcollection of twenty-two portraits by Vandyck ; another is devoted to works byRubens. The AVaterloo Chamber is decorated with portraits, mostly painted bySir Thomas Lawrence, of the chief persons who bore a prominent part in theCongress of Vienna. The collection of drawings by ancient masters is perhaps therichest in the world, and the library contains many works of inestimable value.It would be difficult to discover a more cheerful place for study, for the wide bowwindows, suspended as it were above the terrace walks, look out upon one of themost charming landscapes of England, with the Thames pursuing its devious coursethrough verdant meadows. Looking across the river, we perceive the clock tower, cliapel, and otherbuildings of Eton College. The village of £to)i is in Buckinghamshire, joined to
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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 161 Windsor by an iron bridge, and virtually a suburb of it. At tbis scbool tbeflower of tbe Englisb nobility and gentry are educated, and its muster-roll ofeminent sebolars is wortby of tbe position it bas attained. Tbe college wasfounded in 1440 by Henry VI. for tbe support of twenty-five poor grammarsebolars, and tbe like number of poor men, wbo were to pray for tbe King. Intbe course of time, bowever, it bas grown into tbe most aristocratic scbool ofEngland.* Tbe deligbts of tbe environs of Windsor bave inspired tbe muse of Englandspoets since tbe days of Sbakspere. Historical associations abound. It was notfar from Windsor, at Runnymead, tbat King Jobn was forced, in 1215, to sign tbeCbarter, wbicb for ever limited tbe royal prerogatives. Tbe large park wbichadjoins tbe castle abounds in deligbtful walks and drives tbrougb forest scenery,and is stocked witb berds of deer. Tbe Long Walk, an avenue of noble elms,3 miles in lengtb, traverses it, and terminates on Sn

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