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Title: The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kellogg, D. O. (Day Otis), 1796-1874 Baynes, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1823-1887 Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Werner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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808 he commanded in Finland, and in 1809 in Turkey,and was almost uniformly successful in his operations. Inthe famous Russian campaign of 1812 the corps under hisleadership had been separated from the main army underBarclay de Tolly, and was defeated by Davoust atMohilev. Bagratiou, however, succeeded in effecting the desired junction at Smolensk. Ho was mortally woundedin the bloody battle of the Borodino, 7th Sept. 1812, anddied one month later. BAHAMAS, or Lucayas, a very numerous group ofislands, cays, rocks, and reefs, comprising an area of 3021square miles, lying between 21° 42 and 27° 34 N. lat. and72° 40 and 79° 6 W. long. They encircle and almost enclosethe Gulf of Mexico, stretching more than 600 miles fromthe eastern coast of Florida to the northern coast of StDomingo, and are traversed by only three nangablechannels—1st, the Florida Channel to the N., whichruns along the coast of the United States and lies to thewestward of the whole Bahama group; 2d, the Providence
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Sketch-Map of the Bahama loknils. Channels, passing through the group to the N., andseparating the Great and Little Banks; and 3d, the oldBahama Channel, which passes to the S. of the Great BahamaBank, between it and Cuba. The islands lie for the mostpart on the windward edge of the Great and Little Banks,or of the ocean sounds or tongues which pierce them. Thetotal number of island.s is 29, whilo the cays ore reckonedat 661, and the rocks at 2387. The principal islands areNew Providence (which contains the capital Nassau), Abaco,Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Inagua, JIayaguana, St Salva-dor, Andros Island, Great Bahama, Ragged Island, RumCay, Exuma, Long Island, Crooked Island, Acklin Island,Long Cay, Watling Island, the Berry Islands, ,andthe Biminis. Turks Island and the Caicos, which be-long geographically to the Bahama group, were separatedpolitically in 1848. The formation of all the islands isthe same.—calcareous rocks of coral and shell hardened info limestone, honeycombed ana

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