Mining Review
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-02
issued: 1898-06-04
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note: VOL. 1. TO. 52. SATO ON, B: C.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ SATURDAY, , JOTE'J-, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN Interesting Facts About the Land ."."ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½:ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½. Of the Dons. Tho general desire in this country for some exact knowledge about Spain just now is clearly evinced at the libraries of all the large cities., Tlie libraries have been so pestered by the demands of the public that they have placed all the books relating to "our friends, the emeny," on shelves where the people can pick them out for thernselve-*; "ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½"Ven themthe general thirst for facts about Spain does not seem to be satisfied, and all kinds of impossible requests are made for information which cannot be furnished. It would seem, therefore, that a few plain statements concerning the actual condition of the land of the, Dons will make timely reading. The Kingdom of Spain 'constitutes what might be called lhe southwestern arm of Europe, where it reaches down and almost touches northern Africa. It is a true peninsula, ashed on three sides by the waters ofthe- Mediterranean, the Bay of Biscay'and the Atlantic ocean, and joined by a wide neck of land to. France.. The great Fort" of Gibraltar, cut from tlie solid rock of its southern extremity .completely commands the entrance io the Mediterranean. It is. however, owned and garrisoned by Great Britain. Spain is a Monarchy founded by the,union ofthe Houses of Arragon and Ciistile during the Ffithteenth Century. She has been ruled intermittently by the'Hous's of , Arragon, Bourbon, Savoy and Haps- hurg for -100 years, exc.pt once . when Joseph Bonaparte was proclaimed King-, by his brother, the Emperor Napoleon, and once when the country was a- Kc- public, during 1873 and 1874. The House of Bourbon is in power at present, although its supremacy is opposed by the Carlists, who claim a bar sinister interferes with the .purity of the descent. TKe present king is Alfonso VIII, …
note: Print Run: 1897-1903 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sandon (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0183352
language: English
lat: 49.975556
long: -117.227222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sandon B.C. : Cliffe and Son
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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