. A complete geography. s sort of life has also been encouragedby the fact that food fish abound on tlie shallow banks of the North Seaand of the ocean to the north and west of the islands. More than onehundred thousand men and twenty-five thousand boats from the Britishisles are employed in thefishing industry. Amongthe fish caught are cod, had-dock, and herring, as off thecoast of New England andNewfoundland. Another im-portant kind is a flat-fish, thesole, which resembles theflounder of the New Englandcoast. Salmon enter the rivers of northern Great Britain, and oysters are found along the
. A complete geography. s sort of life has also been encouragedby the fact that food fish abound on tlie shallow banks of the North Seaand of the ocean to the north and west of the islands. More than onehundred thousand men and twenty-five thousand boats from the Britishisles are employed in thefishing industry. Amongthe fish caught are cod, had-dock, and herring, as off thecoast of New England andNewfoundland. Another im-portant kind is a flat-fish, thesole, which resembles theflounder of the New Englandcoast. Salmon enter the rivers of northern Great Britain, and oysters are found along the southern fishing hamlets are scattered along the shore; but the fishing industry here, as in New England, is becom-ing more and more centralized in the large towns, which possess the capital for large vessels and expensive fishing outfits. The chief centres of the trade, like Boston and Gloucester in Massachusetts, are Lo^dok, Hull, and Geimsbt (Fig. 384, near Hull) in England, and Abek- T>EEN in Fig. map showing the coal fields of the British are so many of the large cities on or near thecoal fields ? of the resources of the British Isles which earlyattracted people from southern Europe was the tin in soutliwesternJ^ngland. This metal is not mined in many parts of the world 2 a 354 EUBOPE but has always been in great demand; and even before the time ofCc^sar, ships from the Mediterranean came to England to obtain tmfor use in the manufacture of bronze. Small quantities of copper,lead, zinc, and even gold and silver ores have also been discovered mthe British Isles, but at present there is almost no mining of these metals. , On the other hand, the abundance of two other minerals, coal andiron ore, reminds us of our own country. This one small islandof Great Britain produces almost as much coal as all of our statestoo-ether; and the United States and Great Britain are the lead-ing coal-producing countries of the world. Figure
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