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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND CHAPTER ITHE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLAND 1. The British Isles. Just off the northwestern coast ofEurope lies the British archipelago, the most important singlegroup of islands in the world. But though the British Islescount perhaps more than one thousand separate islands, onlytwo of these are of any considerable size: Great Great BritainBritain and Ireland dominate the entire group, and Ireland.The smaller islands, many of which are mere inhabited rocks,are grouped about these two with the greater number lyingin a broken, irregular line along the western coast of the largerisland of Great Britain. Some of these form The lesserminor groups, such as the Scilly, the Hebrides, lslands-and the Orkney Islands. At the same time, several of themore important ones, like the Isle of Wight, Man, and Anglesea,lie detached and alone, though not far from the larger islands.It seems that nature has intended this archipelago to be apolitical as well as a geographical unit; and th

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