This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter IV. THE BRITISH EMPIRE. IF we look at a map of the world and note the geographical distribution of the British Empire, we may be able to realise the force of the saying that the Kins; reig-ns over a realm on which the sun never sets. While the great life-giver is still blazing over India, he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter IV. THE BRITISH EMPIRE. IF we look at a map of the world and note the geographical distribution of the British Empire, we may be able to realise the force of the saying that the Kins; reig-ns over a realm on which the sun never sets. While the great life-giver is still blazing over India, he is high in the heavens of Aden and Cyprus and Malta, and our South and East Africa possessions; his early beams are rousing to a fresh day's work the people of the Mother Country and their fellow citizens in West Africa, the tiny islets of the Atlantic, and Gibraltar. As he rises in the heavens, his rays begin their march across the great Dominion of Canada, spreading their genial influence southwards to the West Indies and British Guiana, and still further south to the remote Falklands. One after another the ever-welcome light bathes in glory the many island groups and islet gems that fringe our Empire on the broad bosom of the Pacific. Anon it reaches Fiji and New Zealand, and breaks upon the coast of the great Australian Continent and New Guinea. An hour or two later the face of our luminary beams across the horizon on North Borneo, the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, and Burma; and ere his day's work is done, he may 100 even have a smile to spare for the lonely Keelings, and their far-away neighbours, St. Paul and Amsterdam. From our standpoint as subjects of the King, we might divide the world into two parts; ourselves Mi one side, and the rest of the world on the other --the British Empire and Foreign Countries. Injluding every scrap of land which goes to make up the British Empire, --the Mother Country, India and her Feudatory States, the self-governing Dominions or Commonwealths, the Crown Colonies, protectorates and spheres of..
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Add this copy of Applied Geography: a Preliminary Sketch to cart. $53.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
