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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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The wind blowsalmost without interruption from one point of the compass or the other, bringing * Alph. Esquiros, LAngleterre et la vie Anglaise.t Pengelly, Reader, Nov. 19, 1864. Area.X St. Marj-s, Tresco, St. Martins, St. Agnes, Boyer .... 2,330 acres. Nineteen uninhabited islands ........ 289 ,, § Population (1851), 2,627, (1861) 2,431, (1871) 2,075. Il Froude, Uses of a Landed Gentry (Paper read at the Edinburgh Philosophical Inslituto). 80 THE BRITISH ISLES. with it fogs, drizzling rain, or heavy showers. Storms are of frequent occurrence,and the number of shipwrecks is nowhere hirger. The currents which meet atthe Scilly Ishmds often carry vessels out of their true course, and during fogscause them to run upon sunken rocks. It was here that, in 1707, the most disastrousshipwreck of modern times occurred. An entire fleet, commanded by Sir CloudesleyShovel, was thrown upon the rocks, and two thousand human souls passed together FiL. 13. -Til K StII.I.Y TSLANHS. Scale 1 : ITijion.
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) W.oPGr 6-25 6° 15 IoiCjiiOie. Depth under -JG Fathoms 2G to 5i iathoms._ aililes. Over 54 Fathoms. into eternity. An old saying will have it that out of every ten natives of theScilly Islands nine perish in the sea ; but thanks to lighthouses, lightships, fogsignals, life-boats, and a change in the mode of life of the inhabitants, this,happily, is no longer true. The Cornish peninsula is quite as much a land of mist and rain as are theScilly Islands. The annual rainfall is nowhere less than 30 inches ; in mostlocalities it exceeds 3 feet, and on the western slopes of Dartmoor it rises to THE COENISH PENINSULA. 81 80 inches. At Tavistock it rains almost incessantly, showers accompanying thewind from whatever quarter it blows. Many geographers have identified the Scilly Islands with the Cassiterides ofthe ancients, simj)ly because of their vicinity to the Cornish mines. But thesegranitic islands in reality contain only feeble traces of metal, while the rocks ofthe neighbouring mainla

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