f northern Scotland.

BOOTHIA (_Boothia Felix_), a peninsula of British North America,
belonging to Franklin district, and having an area of 13,100 sq. m.,
between 69 deg. 30' and 71 deg. 50' N. and 91 deg. 30' and 97 deg. W.
Its northernmost promontory, Murchison Point, is also the northernmost
point of the American mainland. It was discovered by Captain (afterwards
Sir James) Ross, during his expedition of 1829-1833, and was named after
Sir Felix Booth, who had been chiefly instrumental in fitting out the
expedition. Boothia forms the western side of Boothia Gulf. From the
main mass of the continent the peninsula is almost separated by lakes
and inlets; and a narrow channel known as Bellot Strait intervenes
between it and North Somerset Island, which was discovered by Sir E.
Parry in 1819. The peninsula is not only interesting for its connexion
with the Franklin expedition and the Franklin search, but is of
scientific importance from the north magnetic pole having been first
distinctly localized here by Ross, on the western side, in 70 deg. 5'
N., 96 deg. 47' W.

Boothia Gulf separates the north-western portion of Baffin Land and
Melville Peninsula from Boothia Peninsula. It is connected with Barrow
Strait and Lancaster Sound by Prince Regent Inlet, with Franklin Strait
by Bellot Strait, and with Fox Channel by Fury and Hecla Strait. The
principal bays are Committee and Pelly in the southern portion, and Lord
Mayor in the western.

BOOTLE, a municipal and county borough in the Bootle parliamentary
division of Lancashire, England; at the mouth of the Mersey, forming a
northern suburb of Liverpool. Pop. (1901) 58,566; an increase by nearly
nine times in forty years. The great docks on this, the east bank of the
Mersey, extend into the borough, but are considered as a whole under
LIVERPOOL (q.v.). Such features, moreover, as communications,
water-supply, &c., may be considered as part of the greater systems of
the same city. The chief buildings and institutions are a handsome town
hall, a museum, free libraries, technical schools, and several public
pleasure grounds. Bootle was incorporated in 1868 and was created a
county borough in 1888; the corporation consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen
and 30 councillors. A proposal to include it within the city of
Liverpool was rejected in parliament in July 1903. Area, 1576 acres.

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profit, throu