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Bala Lake ball bank Bays and Gulfs BLACKIE & SON'S called capes Channel Chesil Beach class subjects cloth boards coast contains Cornwall Cotswold Hills county town diameter earth elementary science enclosed by land English Fens flat Forest GEOGRAPHICAL READER Globe or Sphere Goodwin Sands Graded Reading Sheets Harbour hemispheres hill-sides island Isle Isthmus joining two larger Kent Land's End large tract largest division LESSON London mainland map of England Menai Strait miles mountains or hills Ocean open sea orange partly enclosed Physical and Political Plain Plymouth Sound Port Portland Bill Primer Complete.-80 rain which falls rising River Dee River Thames River-basin river-mouth sailed round sand-banks Seven Springs Severn shape shire shore side sinks slope Snowdon Solway Firth Spurn Head Standard stream surface surrounded by land Table-land tide Tor Bay tract of land tributary valley vessel View and Map Wales Warwick waves White Horse Hill Windsor
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Page 76 - HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. By EDGAR SANDERSON, MA, late Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge. With numerous Pictorial Illustrations, Genealogical Tables, Maps, and Plans. 444 pp., cloth, red edges, 2s.
Page 76 - Profusely Illustrated. No. I. for Standard III. Stories from English History, in simple language; from Earliest Times to the end of the Plantagenet Period. 160 pp.
Page 46 - And when he saw thy rocky point aspire, Thought on his native shores, of Aradus or Tyre, Thou only, aged mountain, dost remain ! Stern monument, amidst the deluged plain, And fruitless the big waves thy bulwarks beat. The big waves slow retire, and murmur at thy feet.