The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 1Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... Southern France , surrounded by walled fortifications with fifty round towers , erected by the Visigoths in the fifth cen- tury . It has an old dungeon , a city within the city , where be- leaguered garrisons could hold out for months ...
... Southern France , surrounded by walled fortifications with fifty round towers , erected by the Visigoths in the fifth cen- tury . It has an old dungeon , a city within the city , where be- leaguered garrisons could hold out for months ...
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... southern capital , stands 1,500 feet above the sea amid a forest of 86,000 palm trees , which cover 32,500 acres . They are due to a siege in the seventeenth century , when the assailants fed entirely on dates and threw away the stones ...
... southern capital , stands 1,500 feet above the sea amid a forest of 86,000 palm trees , which cover 32,500 acres . They are due to a siege in the seventeenth century , when the assailants fed entirely on dates and threw away the stones ...
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... Southern Uplands sheep and the woolen industry are important . Dairying and the manufacture of butter , margarine and cheese centre in Ayrshire and the south - west , and Perthshire is a noted agricultural area . Aberdeen and Peterhead ...
... Southern Uplands sheep and the woolen industry are important . Dairying and the manufacture of butter , margarine and cheese centre in Ayrshire and the south - west , and Perthshire is a noted agricultural area . Aberdeen and Peterhead ...
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FRANCE | 9 |
The land and the peopleA rich variety of sceneryThe | 24 |
BELGIUM | 65 |
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