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Excerpt from The Globe Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World: Descriptive and Statistical, With Etymological Notices; Being a Geographical Dictionary for Popular Use The work not only embraces descriptions of the different countries of the globe, their various physical aspects and political divisions, the location of their principal towns, etc., but it possesses also the two important features of giving the pronunciation and, in very many cases, the etymology of the geographical names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.