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    Alden's Handy Atlas of the World
    Alden's Handy Atlas of the World
    Alden's Handy Atlas of the World
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    Alden's Handy Atlas of the World

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      Alden's Handy Atlas of the World - John B. Alden

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      Title: Alden's Handy Atlas of the World

      Author: John B. Alden

      Release Date: December 31, 2011 [EBook #38457]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALDEN'S HANDY ATLAS OF THE WORLD ***

      Produced by Ben Courtney, Keith Edkins and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      ALDEN'S

      HANDY ATLAS

      OF THE

      WORLD.

      INCLUDING

      ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT

      COLORED MAPS, DIAGRAMS,

      TABLES, ETC.

      NEW YORK:

      JOHN B. ALDEN, PUBLISHER.

      1888.

      BRILLIANT BOOKS.

      The following are A FEW TITLES and prices from my catalogue of standard books:

      Alden's Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, publishing in 15 volumes, of about 500 pages each; per volume, paper, 30c.; cloth, 50c.; half Morocco, 60c.

      American Patriotism: Famous Orations and Patriotic Papers; cloth 50c., half Morocco 70c.

      Ancient Classics for English Readers; 27 volumes; each, paper, 10c.; cloth, 20c. Also bound in 9 vols., half Russia, each 50c.

      Argyll's Reign of Law, cloth, 60c.; Unity of Nature, 60c.; Primeval Man, 35c.; the three in one volume, cloth, $1.00.

      Bacon's Essays, complete; paper 12c., cloth 25c.

      Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; paper 8c., cloth 20c. and 30c.

      Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature; 8 volumes in cloth, $2.00.

      Chinese Classics: The Works of Confucius and Mencius, translated; cloth 75c.

      Classic Comedies, by Goldsmith, Sheridan, and Jonson; cloth 40c., half Morocco 60c.

      Classic Prose Wonder-Book; 900 large octavo pages, richly bound. $1.50.

      Confessions of St. Augustine; translated, cloth, 50c.

      Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World; cloth, 40c.

      De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater; cloth, 20c.

      Doré's Bible Gallery of Illustrations and Stories; reduced from $5.00 to $1.25.

      Doré's Milton's Paradise Lost; text complete, with 52 cartoons, $1.25.

      Durfee's Poetical Concordance to the principal Poets of the World; cloth, gilt edges, $1.00.

      Emerson's Essays, 2 volumes; each, cl., 40c.; half Morocco, 60c.

      Emerson's Nature, Etc.; cloth 35c., half Morocco 50c.

      Famous Warriors: Lives of Hannibal, Cæsar, and Cromwell, by famous authors; each, paper, 8c.; all in one vol., cloth, 40c.

      Farrar's Seekers after God; cloth, 35c.

      —— Lectures, Addresses and Essays; cloth 35c., half Morocco 50c.

      Geikie's Hours with the Bible; 6 vols., illustrated; reduced in price from $1.50 per vol. to 45c. in cl., or 60c. in half Morocco.

      —— Life and Words of Christ; reduced in price from $8.00 to 45c. for cloth, or 60c. for half Morocco.

      John B. Alden, Publisher, 393 Pearl St., New York.

      Copyright, 1885 and 1886, by

      Rand, McNally & Co.

      INDEX

      TO

      Maps and Descriptive Matter

      .

      INDEX

      TO

      Diagrams and Tables

      .

      EUROPE.

      Northwestern portion of Old World and smallest of its grand divisions. Extreme length northeast and southwest, 3500 miles extreme breadth, over 2,400 miles; coast line not less than 20,000 miles.

      LENGTHS OF RIVERS.

      AREAS SEAS AND LAKES.

      PRODUCTION OF RAW SILK.

      LINEN.

      LACE.

      ANNUAL MINERAL PRODUCTIONS.

      GREAT BRITAIN.

      The largest island of Europe, and forming, with Ireland and the adjacent islands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The union of England and Ireland was effected January 1, 1800.

      Area of the kingdom, 120,832 square miles. Pop., 35,241,482. The divisions are: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Capital, London; pop., 4,766,661. Thirty-five cities have over 75,000 population. Climate is variable but healthful. Average temperature, 50°. Rainfall, London, 25 inches; Glasgow, 21; and Dublin, 29.

      Middle-class education is entirely unorganized; no complete, trustworthy statistics are to be had. There were, in 1884, 69 universities and colleges, with 23,823 students. In 1881, there were 1,855 schools of science, with 66,000 students. Number of public libraries, 202. The library of the British Museum has 32 miles of shelves, filled with books. Number of daily papers, 169.

      Productive area in England is 80 per cent.; in Ireland, 74 per cent.; Scotland, 28.8 per cent.; Wales, 60 per cent. Leading crops in Great Britain, wheat, barley and oats. Acreage, 1884: wheat, 2,676,477; barley, 2,159,485; oats, 2,892,576. In Ireland, oats and potatoes are most important; acreage of former, 1,347,395; of latter, 798,942. Number of acres of flax, 89,197. Orchards of Great Britain cover 180,000 acres, and produce 85,000 tons of apples.

      The most important minerals are coal and iron. In 1883, coal product was 163,737,327 tons; value, $230,270,715. Iron ore, 17,383,046 tons; value, $25,611,905. In 1883, 1,724,251 tons of pig iron were used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel, 1,097,174 tons of it being made into steel rails. Over 800 tons of steel are annually consumed in the manufacture of pens, Birmingham alone using 500 tons; the average yearly production is 800,000,000.

      The annual value of the fisheries is $50,000,000. Herring fishery alone $10,000,000; salmon, $4,000,000; oysters and shell-fish, $10,000,000. Value of the Scotch fisheries alone in 1884 was $16,431,210, the herring fishery alone being $10,267,755. Total value of imports, 1884, $1,948,872,745; exports of home produce, $1,164,537,875; foreign and colonial produce, $312,218,575. Value of corn and flour imported 1882, $338,111,835. Value of cotton manufactures exported was $382,228,785.

      There are 2,674 cotton factories, employing 482,903 persons. Total number of all factories, 7,105; number of persons employed, 975,546, of whom 110,585 are children under 13 years of age. Men employed, 38 per cent.; women, 62 per cent. Amount of cotton imported, 1883, 1,734,333,552 lbs.; wool, 495,946,779 lbs.

      Standing army in time of peace unlawful without the consent of Parliament; annual appropriation of Commons for support of troops, based on estimates made by the Cabinet. For 1884 and 1885, home and colonial effectives and reserves, 644,753.

      Previous to 1815 there was but little emigration from the United Kingdom; in that year the number was 2,081; in 1830-34, 381,956; 1875, 173,809; 1882, 413,288; and in 1884, 304,074, of whom 203,539 came to the United States.

      First railway opened in 1825. In 1883, there were 18,681 miles of railway; 13,215 belonging to England and Wales, 2,964 to Scotland, and 2,502 to Ireland. Number of postoffices, 1884, 15,951; and, in addition, 15,749 road and pillar boxes. There are

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