. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. romfrom to 351, theie was a slight in-in Wales; while in theIT was a trifling increaseurine the period. Taken1(1 in England fell from«i in 1877. being a ,1 ^i,.nt of arable land period. The decre of, like. wei-ein England u>tain land —9,9>.il 1877, the inrreas. ibeing more than dIn Wales there wand 1,732,000 acres ?? , „„iM • -M nilO acres, In. vxiini ..,.:.--l i^! l-underpasture 1,532,0<0 in 18720 acres in 1877, making the increase 10200 000 acres tl iTals
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. romfrom to 351, theie was a slight in-in Wales; while in theIT was a trifling increaseurine the period. Taken1(1 in England fell from«i in 1877. being a ,1 ^i,.nt of arable land period. The decre of, like. wei-ein England u>tain land —9,9>.il 1877, the inrreas. ibeing more than dIn Wales there wand 1,732,000 acres ?? , „„iM • -M nilO acres, In. vxiini ..,.:.--l i^! l-underpasture 1,532,0<0 in 18720 acres in 1877, making the increase 10200 000 acres tl iTalso being not fa? fr.°»,;;:,, Ur,decZe in amble land. The decrease in the ^^^^^^^ , Vc.,?, 1,. thus oxplaincd, it is not so easy to account forpastiircscan n, in n .1. ,,^ ,l>? - ^ I I _^ jj mifM have been ex- :,sturBl area would have led ihe contrary the case,I cattle and sheep. InEiig-r cattle in .lune, 1S74. of d, tile numberliciiig a decrease oflUinber of sheep in:;2 064 in the shortmeinii of llve-stook. RvIWins Pm» I ._ corn crops ,4421 iltnneously ^^:£::MlS^^^^^^^^ GREATBIUTATN 471 GREAT BRITAIN cent. We see, besides, that in the census returns of 1871 thenumber of persous At the pri-eeiliciK icii»u9 (ISiili tliriculturists within tlurental of the lamlsoil, two thirds b<persons and thi u, and 183,450number of* ag-a diminution ofk that the highwnership of the-r ten thousand a million, have much to do with the rapid decline of agriculture in England. II. , the northern portion of Great Britain, extends inIts main land from lat. 54 38 to 58^ 41 N., and Ion. I- 45 to6^ 14 W,, and including the islands to lat. 60 50 .N. and 35 W. It is from England by a waving line ofthe Cheviot Hills in the centre ; by tile Tweed, which entersthe sea of Berwick, on the E.; and by the Solway Frith on theW. Its E. shores are vvashed by the North
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