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Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinder, Halford John
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, G. Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n the lower parts ofthe dales and on the hill shoulders which overlookthe plain, a very dense population has been estab-ished. Here there are large towns and hundredsof tall, smoky chimneys belonging to the factoriesand to the collieries. Along the coasts great ports have arisen whosedocks are crowded with ships. Busy railwayscross the pleasant farming country, carrying thetraffic to and fro between the industrial towns onthe coalfields and the shipping on the coast. Thechief ports of the north of England are Liverpoolon the west, and Hull, jMiddlesbrough, Sunderland,and Newcastle on the east coast. All these ports,you will observe, are on the estuaries of rivers. There are other large towns beside the sea whichhave recently sprung up, not for commerce, but forthe purposes of pleasure. These are the places INDUSTRIES OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND 65 where the people who live near the smoky chim-neys of the industrial districts like to spend theirholidays. The largest of them are Scarborough
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Fig. 37.—The Coalfields of the North of England.You should compare this map with Plate II, p. 21. on the east coast, and Blackpool and Southporton the west. Let us now look at Plates II, p. 21, and X, p. 100, ee OUR OWN islands once more, and try to make a picture in our mindsof the whole district which is known as the Northof England. See how the Irish Sea invades the breadth of theisland, taking a great square out of it and reducingEngland in this part to an isthmus. And see howthe Pennine Range runs northw^ard through thisisthmus, making a backbone for the land. Thinkof the high lonely belt of the central moorland ;think of the busy, smoky districts on either hand,placed along the two edges of the moorland ; thinknext of the green and cultivated lowlands throughwhich run northward the eastern and w^esternroads to Scotland ; and then think lastly of the twosea shores, the eastern and the western, and of theirports and their pleasure towns. What does not Britain ow^e to the coal bu

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