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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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e by the wealthycitizens of Belfast, but because their gardens and plots of arable land do not yieldsiifficient to satisfy their wants. Through a strange irony of fate, the poorestIrishmen take most delight in dressing in swallow-tailed coats and breeches, and inwearing black hats. Whole ship-loads of cast-off garments of this description areannually sent across the Channel. The clothing produced in the country itselfis coarse, but exhibits in its cut a considerable degree of good taste. All the large towns of Ireland lie on the sea-coast. Situated near Englandand Scotland, and at the western extremity of Europe, Ireland failed to create agreat capital in the interior of the island. Her centres of civilisation naturally * Live stock : — Horses and Mulei Cattle Sheep Pigs t George Hill ; ^Ir. and Mrs. Hall, Ireland ; Amédée Pichot, LIrlande et le pays des Galles. 1851. 1879. 543,312 596,890 2,967,461 4,067,778 1,122,128 4,017,903 1,081.807 1,072,185 Scale 1 • 95 ooo D U BLl N BAY
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KEWVOBK.D.:.>.Pp,E,,^^^^^^ LEIXSTER. 411 sprang up on that side of her seaboard which presented the greatest facilities forkeeping up an intercourse with the commercial countries from which a doublechannel separates her. In this feature of her political geography Ireland resemblesSpain, but the causes which have had the same effect in both countries aredifferent. In the Iberian peninsula the inhabitants principally crowd the sea-shore because of the cold and sterility of the plateaux and mountains which fill theinterior of the countr). In Ireland it is the necessity of commercial intercoursewhich accounts for the existence of busy seaport towns, the vast bogs of the centralplain, which were formerly hardly passable, contributing, no doubt, in a certainmeasure to that result. The most flourishing seaboard is naturally that whichfaces England, and here, right opposite to Liverpool and Holyhead, on a spotmarked by nature as the site for a great city, Dublin, the capital of the entirei

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