Identifier: canadianschoolge00corn (find matches)
Title: Canadian school geography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London Toronto : Dent
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ls the banks to the east of Canada for the first place as a fishing ground. Most of the fishing boats sail from ports on the east coast, though there is considerable fishing carried on from Devon and Cornwall in the south and from Wales and Lancashire in the west. Grimsby at the mouth of the Humber River is unrivalled in the world as a fishing town. Yarmouth is the centre of the herring fisheries, and at Billingsgate Market, London, are sold immense quantities of fresh fish for the London area. The most important fish caught is the herring, though haddock, cod, and plaice are also very valuable. Fishing in England is carried on more scientifically than in Canada. The small motor boat or sailing smack gives place to large steam trawlers and drifters (Fig. 178). The otter-trawl,which has been already described, is extensively used for cod,haddock, plaice, and other bottom fish; but herring and mackerel are taken by drifters (Fig. 179). Sec. 417. Surface.—The chief highlands of England are found
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318 CANADIAN SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY in the north and west (Map ^9 in Atlas). The Pennine Chain extend north and south through the northern part of England.These mountains are nowhere high, and several gaps are cut through them by the rivers. The Welsh mountains of the west are higher and more rugged. Bordered by these latter mountains on the west and by the Pennine Mountains on the east is the western plain, which extends from north to south throughout the country.The eastern plain, which is more extensive than the western, is narrow to the east of the Pennines but in Middle and Southern England occupies more than half of the width of the country. Sec. 418. Rivers-—Since England is a very small country the rivers are necessarily short, but they are of immense importance on account of the fact that they are navigable for the largest

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