New geographies . countries and languages are easy tounderstand. For instance,it is plain why the British the waterIsles should form a separate *^™ separates J J the people nation. Being surroundedby water, and thus cut off from otherpeople, the British have remained inde-pendent, and formed a language of theirown. Italy is nearly surrounded by water;and on the north, where there is nowater, the Alps Mountains g or water andrise, like a great wall, shut> mountains sepa-ting out people on that has, therefore, developed a govern-ment and language of its own. Notehow many other coun
New geographies . countries and languages are easy tounderstand. For instance,it is plain why the British the waterIsles should form a separate *^™ separates J J the people nation. Being surroundedby water, and thus cut off from otherpeople, the British have remained inde-pendent, and formed a language of theirown. Italy is nearly surrounded by water;and on the north, where there is nowater, the Alps Mountains g or water andrise, like a great wall, shut> mountains sepa-ting out people on that has, therefore, developed a govern-ment and language of its own. Notehow many other countries of Europe areon peninsulas. Name them. The water and mountains have hadmuch influence in breaking Europe upinto so many countries with differentlanguages. In times past, when therewere no railroads, and there was littletravel, each lot of people, thus separatedfrom others, learned to govern them-selves and speak a separate language. There is a third important reason forso many countries and languages. Hun-.
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