A Glimpse of English Speaking Countries [antikvár]

I. Geography GENERAL FACTS ABOUT RRITISH ISLES The British Isles lie off the north-west coast of Continental Europe,. roughly between latitudes 50 and 60 degrees North. They are made up of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Ireland (Northern Ireland and the independent Irish Republic) and somé 5,500 smaller islands. The totál area of the British Isles is 121,000 square miles. At the last census (1961 a.- H. H.) the population of the British Isles was 53,344,000 and of the United Kingdom 50,225,000. This gives a population density for the United Kingdom of 533 persons per square mile. The population of Greater London 1 is 8V4 millión, and the population of Glasgow and Birmingham hoth reach over the millión mark. On the other hand the north-west of Scotland and the Scottish islands are among the most sparsely populated areas in Europe. BRITISH NATURE /. B. Priestley2 (From "The Beauty of England") The beauty of our country is as hard to define as it is easy to enjoy. Remembering other and larger countries, we see at once that one of its charms is that it is immensely varied within a small compass. We have here no vast mountain ranges, no illuminable plains, no leagues of forest, and deprived of the grandeur that may accompany these things. But we have superb variety. A great deal of everything is packed into little space. I suspect that we are always faintly conscious of the fact that this is a smallish island, with the sea always round the corner. We know that everything has to be neatly packed into a small space. Nature,