Excerpt from The British Empire

The British Empire, with its recent ex tensions ih the form of protectorates and Spheres of in¿uence, has an area of nearly four Europes, public revenues of 260 mil lions sterling (without counting the vast sums raised in the United Kingdom by local rates), a population of 400 millions, and half the sea-borne trade of the world. It stands at the top of almost every scale by which.

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