. Europe and other continents . Fig. cottage near the Lakes of Killarney in Ireland. THE BRITISH ISLES 175 British Isles are in the same latitude as Labrador. Eng-land itself is smaller than New England ; and the BritishIsles, including England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, andseveral hundred small islands, are not much larger thanthe state of Col-. orado. Yet in spite oftheir northernposition andsmall area, thelargest city in theworld is locatedin the BritishIsles. More thanthat, Great Brit-ain has moremanu f a c t u ring,after the UnitedStates, moreforeign trade, agreater numberof v
. Europe and other continents . Fig. cottage near the Lakes of Killarney in Ireland. THE BRITISH ISLES 175 British Isles are in the same latitude as Labrador. Eng-land itself is smaller than New England ; and the BritishIsles, including England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, andseveral hundred small islands, are not much larger thanthe state of Col-. orado. Yet in spite oftheir northernposition andsmall area, thelargest city in theworld is locatedin the BritishIsles. More thanthat, Great Brit-ain has moremanu f a c t u ring,after the UnitedStates, moreforeign trade, agreater numberof vessels uponthe sea, and morecolonies () than anyother nation inexistence (Fig. 193). There are of course reasons forthese remarkable facts, and we shall next look for them. Physiography and Climate. — The southwesterly windsfrom over the warm ocean (p. 161) offer a partial expla-nation of the above facts. Two days out of three thesewinds blow across the British Isles ; and, since they have Fig. isotherms for the British Isles. 176 EUROPE traversed a vast expanse of warm water, they greatly tem-per the climate. Indeed, the winter season (Fig. 125)is milder than that in northern United States, and thesummer (Fig. 124) is cooler (Figs. 86 and 37). The latter fact is duepartly to the lowinclination of thesuns rays in thesenorthern lati-
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