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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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he present time Hull ranksfifth, and it imports corn, flour, and other agricultural produce, as well as cattle,from Germany, Denmark, and the Baltic. Wool and tobacco likewise figurelargely amongst the imports, in return for which Hull exports the produce ofthe numerous industrial inland towns as well as of its own machine shops,chemical works, oil-crushing mills, and other factories. Lines of steamers placeHull in regular communication with all the ports of the east coast of GreatBritain and of Northern Europe. Hull was one of the first towns to take advan-tage of the maritime route to Siberia opened up by the persistent labours ofNordenskjold. In 1877 a Hull steamer laden with coal and petroleum reachedTobolsk. The docks, constructed since 1778, and the crescent-shaped roadsteadof the river, here 2 miles in width, are at all times crowded with shipping ofevery description. There are ship-building yards, principally for the construc-♦ Halley, Atlas Maritimns ft Commercial is, 1728.
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YOEKSHIEE. 253 tion of iron vessels. Hull has a fine park, a museum, and several learned societies.Wilberforce was born here, and a monument has been raised in his honour. Cottingham, a suburban village of Hull, with many market gardens, lies onthe road to Beverley, a very ancient city, at one time of greater importance thanits neighbour Hull, and still the capital of the East Riding. Beverley boasts aremarkably fine minster. There are chemical and agricultural machinery works,and a great trade in corn and provisions is carried on. Passing through GreatDriffield, we reach Bridlington, with its fine priory church, and Bridlington Quay,its port, on the great bay, protected in the north by Flamborough Head. Achalybeate spring and several intermittent springs, known as the Gipsies,are near the town. Geologists will be interested in the caverns and fossils ofthe chalk cliffs, as well as in the ancient bushes covered with shells, which GwynJeffreys refers to the glacial epoch. There are no

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