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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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•2 MQes. ampton what it is was the opening of the South-Western Railway. Placed therebywithin a two-hours ride of the metropolis, Southampton was enabled to make themost of the advantages which it offered to persons desirous of proceeding fromLondon to foreign parts. By embarking at Southampton these travellers avoidedthe delay incidental to a passage through the Straits of Dover. That townbecame, in fact, the starting-point of the Indian and other mail-packets, and thedocks excavated for their accommodation at the head of the peninsula, as well as TiËlE ^TEKILA^B Maw^rK nrg ,ai§TIRAlLSA
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HAMPSHIRE. 139 the roadstead, are at all times crowded witli steamers. The stream of travellerswhich uninterruptedly passes through the town, the transhipment of merchan-dise, and the repair, outfit, and construction of ships have given an impetus tothe industry of the place, which is causing it steadily to expand in the direction ofShirley and other neighbouring villages. Bargate, which separates the lowerfrom the upper town, is the most interesting relic of old Southampton. TheHartley Institution contains a museum, a library, and a School of Art, butgeographers are more likely to feel interested in the Ordnance Survey Office, whichis intrusted with the publication of the maps of the United Kingdom. Severalthousand sheets, varying in scale from 6 feet to 1 inch to a mile, have already beenpublished, but many years must elapse before this gigantic work can be completed,only to be begun de novo, for the surface of the country is perpetually changing,from natural causes no less than thr

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