SOME GEOGRAPHICAL BLUSHERS
Like Superior is usually credited with being the largest sheet of fresh water on the face of the globe. This Is a mistake, for Lakta Huron and Micigan really constitute a single lake, although its two portions have received different names. The area of this like is about 10,000 square miles Urgt t than Vupt-rior. there ate a groat in nf muapprol.e a ona of this kind p rpetrated in stereotyped schoolbooko. The Trent is not nedited with being the largest river in England, to cause it joins the Ouse tj form thHumber. Greenland ia never considered worthy of mention as an la and at all, although it ia as big as New Guinea sue Bo neo taken ing-ttier. Hudson’s Bay is more of a sea than the Bdtio, but n remains a bay ttil . Thcip are salt E.keIr .-vus'iatia bigger than the Dead Sea, but they are deemed unworthy of i.o'ic-. 't he word “ continent ” defies defintti ui. Wnon the Suez Canal was cut it w«s re marked that Afr ci had become an Island, and this is true, but only in the same ■eusa that Europe and Asia combined fo:m another is and. (Exchange)
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1443, 29 December 1886, Page 3
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199SOME GEOGRAPHICAL BLUSHERS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1443, 29 December 1886, Page 3
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