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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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4G4 THE BRITISH ISLES.<br />

nearly every port of the world, <strong>and</strong> successfully competes with foreigners in their<br />

own waters.* When the Suez Canal, which now joins the Mediterranean to the<br />

Red Sea, was first projected, it was feared by some that it would unduly profit<br />

Greek, French, <strong>and</strong> Italian ship-owners ; but M. de Lesseps was right when he<br />

predicted that Eug'an 1, of all maritime nations, would derive the greatest advan-<br />

tages from it. <strong>The</strong> commercial interests of Eiiglau'l in India <strong>and</strong> the East exceed<br />

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