Excerpt from The Earth and Its Inhabitants; Europe, Vol. 4: The British Isles The contours of Great Britain are at once symmetrical and bold. In its general structure that island strikingly resembles the peninsula of Scandinavia. Like the latter, it stretches from north to south in the direction of the meridians, its plateaux and mountains rise near the west coast, and its principal rivers ow to the eastward. Ireland, though it too has fine contours, is far more massive in its configuration than the sister island. Its mountains form the nuclei of distinct provinces, whose inhabitants made war upon each other; but on the whole its features exhibit greater geographical unity than those of the larger island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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