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1895 - England

England, ing'gland (L. An'glia; Fr. Angleterre, 6N' l'tain'; It. Inghilterra, £, Sp. and Port. Ingla terra, ing-glà-tèR'Rā; Ger. England, &ng’lānt; Dutch, En eland, éng'He-lânt'), the southern and larger section of the island of Great Britain, and the most important of the three kingdoms constituting the British empire, between lat. 49° 57' 42" and 55° 46' N. and lon. 1° 40' E. and 5° 42' W. The northern boundary, between it and Scotland, is constituted by the Solway Firth and the river Sark on the west, then by a line to the point where the Liddell falls into the Esk, thence by the Liddell eastward and upwards till it is struck by the Cheviots, then by the watershed of that range till they sink into the valley of the Tweed, and finally by the Tweed till it falls into the sea. On all other sides Eng land is washed by the sea, (See GREAT BRITAIN.) Its coast-line is irregular, being much indented by a continuous series of bays, estuaries, and headlands, so that although measured from headland to headland its coast-line is only 1200 miles, if the curves of its inner indentations are fol lowed the measurement amounts to 2000 miles. Its general shape is that of a triangle, of which the base is the southern coast from Land's End to South Foreland, and the apex Berwick. Length, from Portland Bill to Berwick, 363 miles; greatest breadth, viz., from North Foreland to Land's End, 320 miles. Area, 50,879 square miles, or about five-ninths of the island of Great Britain. With the exception of Belgium, England and Wales constitute the most thickly peopled country in Europe, the average to a square mile being about 540. In 1801 the pop, of England was 9,156,171; in 1891, 27,482,104, giving an increase of more than 250 per cent...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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