Our own islands; an elementary study in geography (1907) (14579000749)

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Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography

Year: 1907 (1900s)

Authors: Mackinder, Halford John

Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel

Publisher: London, G. Philip

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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t all like that of London, inEngland ? CHAPTER XXXVTI—PLACE-NAMES AND COUNTIES We have now trcaveiled right through Britain. Wehave seen something of each part of it. Let usconsider lastly some things which concern thewhole country. The names of places are among the most interest-ing facts in geography. There are a good manynames on the maps in this book, but if you look ata really large map of England you will see somethousand of them. If you live in the country, you know that everyvillage round you has its own name, and if youlive in a town, you know that every street has itsname. These names are often much older than thehouses now standing in the village, or in thestreet. One by one, the houses are pulled downand new houses are built in their place, but thename of the street generally continues, eventhough at the end of several lifetimes there be notone of the old houses left standing. The name was generally given by people whocame to the district before any village or street 255

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1 Fiu. 114.—Early Britain. 2.J6 PLAGE-NAMES AND COUNTIES 257 had been built, and of course they named theplace in their own language. You will rememberthat in the First Part of this book we learned thatthe French people speak of the Strait of Dover asthe Pas de Calais. Let us look first at some of the river names onthe maps of Britain. There are two tributariesof the Severn which are both called Avon. Wehave to distinguish them, as you know, by speak-ing of one as the Warwick Avon and of theother as the Bristol Avon. There are still otherrivers Avon in Britain. For example there is onein Wiltshire, which flows past Salisbury, andanother in the north-east of Scotland. Nor is this the only river name which is repeatedagain and again in different parts of the country.In the North of England we have the YorkshireOuse, and we have the Great Ouse flowing into theWash, and the Little Ouse into the Great Ouse,There is an Ouse also in Sussex. Why is it that we find so many rivers called byth

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