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co. of England, di- pure it is without color, taste, or smell. vided from Berkshire by the River It is the sustaining principle of animal Thames, and adjoining Gloucestershire, life and of the ordinary phenomena of and the counties of Warwick, North- combustion. Under the influence of cold and high pressure it has been reduced ampton, and Buckingham. The area, which totals 751 square miles, is divid- to the liquid state. ed outside the towns between forest, agri- OXYHYDROGEN BLOWPIPE. An culture and pasture land, this last pre- apparatus in which hydrogen is burnt dominating. The social life is centered in a stream of pure oxygen. When hyat Oxford, which is the capital. Dairy drogen burns in air or oxygen, water is farming is one of the industries, and produced. When combustion takes place the manufactures include shoes, gloves, in pure oxygen, a very high temperature blankets and farming utensils. Pop. results, stated by Bunsen to be 2,844° about 200,000.

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