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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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ards, etc., it covers about twoacres of ground. There are extensive ironworksin the town, which supply machinery for steam-ers, etc. Pop. (1901) 9,760. Carnarvonshire, or Caernarvonshire,Wales, a maritime county having Carnarvon Bayon the west; Denbigh on the east; the island ofAnglesea and the Irish Sea on the north; andCardigan Bay on the south. Its extreme length,southwest to northeast, is about 52 miles; ex-treme breadth, 20 miles, although the greaterportion of it does not exceed seven or eightmiles on an average; area, 369,477 acres. This-county is traversed throughout its whole lengthby lofty mountains, including the Snowdonrange, whose highest peak is 3,557 feet abovethe sea. There are other summits varying from1,500 feet to more than 3,000 feet. Dairy farm-ing, and cattle, horse, and sheep breeding arethe principal occupations of the farmer. Thecattle and sheep are of a small breed. Leadand copper ores are found in the mountainssouth, and there are slate auarries at Bethesda,
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Photograph by J. Horace Mcrarland Co. CARNATION CARNATIC — CARNEADES Llanberis, and Nantlle, which have been exten-sively and profitably worked. Pop. (1901)126,835. Carnatic, kar-natic, former province ofBritish India, on the east coast of the peninsula.Its limits were ill defined, but it is commonlythought to have extended from Cape Comorinto lat. 16° N., and from the coast line to anaverage of about 80 miles inland. It was for-merly included in the dominions of the nabobof Arcot, and the contentions arising from adisputed succession first brought the French andEnglish into collision, and ended by the subju-gation of the Carnatic under the British influ-ence, which was completely effected in 1801. TheCarnatic as one of the wealthy provinces hasbeen the cause of endless native warfare andbloodshed, by which, whoever was victor, theunhappy cultivator suffered in the end; as eachsuccessive ruler, feeling his tenure uncertain,cared only to make revenue while the powerlasted, an exampl

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