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A Geography, Physical, and Descriptive, for Beginners, Ed. by M. Creighton
A Geography Physical and Descriptive for Beginners Ed by M Creighton Author:Leonora Blanche Lang Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3selves to catching eider ducks, seals, cod, and some whales, which are exported, together with spar and sulphur. They are Lutherans (or Protestants) by religion, and are governed by a spec... more »ial minister, who lives in Denmark, and a local governor living at textit{Reykjavik, the only town on the south-west coast. Iceland measures about 210 miles in breadth, and is larger than Ireland. GREENLAND. The country of Greenland, which was colonized by the Norwegians in the early middle ages, is separated from America by Baffin's Bay and Davis' Strait, and from Iceland by the Arctic Ocean. It is now a Danish possession. To Denmark also belong three of the Lesser Antilles (West Indies)—St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. Johns. CHAPTER IV. textit{RUSSIA IN EUROPE. The great country of Russia occupies the whole of the east side of Europe from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, and though, of course, a large part of it lies within the same latitudes as the lands of central Europe, its climate (from reasons that will afterwards be given) is so much colder that we shall include it among the countries of the north. Russia in Europe is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Oural Mountains and river Oural (which divide it from Asia), on the south by the Caspian and Euxine Seas, and by Armenia, on the west by Roumania, Austria, Germany, and the Baltic. It is about 2700 miles from north to south, and about 20 30 4,0 50 €C RUSSIA In Europe 1500 from east to west; within these limits are included many countries that have been conquered at various times; but the inhabitants may be roughly said to have sprung from three great races—the Finns on the north and east, the Slavonians in the centre and west, and a large admixture of Tatars on the south-east. i. Physical Features. A ...« less