red-contour maps on the scale of 1/2 in. to 1 m. (also issued
in larger separate sheets).
Statistics of every kind--of climate, agriculture, mining,
manufactures, trade, population, births, marriages, deaths, disease,
migration, education--are liberally furnished by government agencies.
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Disease in Great Britain_ (London, 1892); A. Buchan, "The Mean
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maps), _Journal of the Scottish Meteorological Society_, vol. xi.
(1898), pp. 3-41; W. M. Davis, "The Development of Certain English
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Proc. Inst. C.E._ (1904), vol. clv. part i.; "A Fragment of the
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The general questions capable of a single treatment for England,
Scotland and Ireland are considered under UNITED KINGDOM.
[2] Measurements made on a map on the scale of 12-1/2 m. to 1 in., the
coast being assumed to run up estuaries until the breadth became 1
m., and no bays or headlands of less than 1 m. across being reckoned.
The coast-line of Anglesea and the Isle of Wight, but of no other
islands, is included.
[3] A separate topographical notice is given under the heading WALES,
but the consideration of certain points affecting Wales as linked
with England is essential in this article.
[4] The figures given here are for the ancient or
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