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Identifier: ourownislandsele00mackrich (find matches)
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
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o CO THE MIDLANDS OF ENGLAND 211 of towns of which Stoke and Hanley are the chief.These towns are engaged in the making of earthen-ware, and the district is therefore described as thePotteries. The best kind of clay, called kaolin, is used formaking china ware. It is the soil produced by thedecay of the rock known as granite. There is muchgranite in Cornwall and Devonshire, and kaolinis brought by ship from those counties to theMersey, and is then carried by barges throughcanals to the Potteries. North-westward from Birmingham a broadbelt of the plain passes between the Welsh Uplandsand the Peak into Cheshire, and so to the south-eastern corner of the Irish Sea. This low passagebetween Wales and the Peak is known as the Mid-land Gate. It is of great importance. Thinkhow costly railway traffic between London andLiverpool would have been if the Moors hadextended right across from the Peak into Wales.As it is, however, one of the most level lines of rail-way in England is the London and

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