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Lough Neagh, in Ireland, is not enumerated 

 above, as not being on the Continent. It con- 

 tains 153 square miles, and ranks twenty-sixth 

 in the list of lakes of Europe. 



Among the most important sea-basins, that 

 of the Caspian embraces 724,571 square miles. 

 It is followed closely by that of the Baltic, with 

 671,818 square miles. The basin of the Black 

 Sea contains 621,946 square miles; that of the 

 Arctic Ocean, including the White Sea, 494,- 

 272 square miles; of the Atlantic, 354,772 

 square miles; of the Mediterranean, 236,889 

 square miles; of the Sea of Azov, 201,467 

 square miles; of the North Sea, 195,280 square 

 miles; of the Adriatic, 91,522 square miles; 

 and of the Sea of Marmora, 1,636 square miles. 



The areas of the seas of Europe are esti- 

 mated as follow, by General Strelbitzky: 



The Baltic, of all the seas of Europe, pos- 

 sesses the longest coast-line. The length of its 

 coasts is 11,833 miles, of which Russia and 

 Sweden possess nearly equal parts, 4,184 miles 

 for the former and 5,731 miles for the latter. 

 Germany possesses 1,366 miles, and Denmark 

 552 miles. The coast-line of the Mediterra- 

 nean is not much less than that of the Baltic, 

 being 11,272 miles long, of which number, 

 however, 6,351 miles only belong to Europe. 

 This number is divided as follows among the 

 different European states: Greece, 1,841 miles; 

 Turkey, 1,412 miles; Italy, 1,472 miles; Spain, 

 1,078 miles; France, 539 miles; Great Britain, 

 9 miles. The Adriatic has a coast-line of 

 2,396 miles, of which 1,243 miles belong to 

 Austria, 874 miles to Italy, 249 miles to Tur- 

 key, and 30 miles to Montenegro. The Euro- 

 pean coast-line of the Black Sea is 1,776 miles 

 long, of which 1,249 miles are in Russia, 376 

 miles in Turkey, and 151 miles in Roumania ; 

 that of the Caspian is 2,094 miles, and that of 

 the Sea of Marmora 252 miles. The Sea of Azov 

 has a circumference of 913 miles. The North 

 Sea has a coast-line of 4,418 miles, of which 

 3,033 miles belong to Norway, 647 miles to the 

 Netherlands, 460 miles to Germany, 178 miles 

 to Denmark, 53 miles to Belgium, and 47 miles 

 to France. On the Atlantic, Europe has a 

 coast-line almost equal in length to that on the 

 Baltic, in all 11,724 miles, of which 7,104 miles 

 belong to Norway, 2,265 miles to France, 

 1,579 miles to Spain, and 776 miles to Portugal. 

 The Arctic Ocean and the White Sea together 

 have a coast-line of 6,542 miles, of which 5,632 

 miles are in Russia and 910 miles in Norway. 

 The entire coast-line of the different countries 

 of Europe we find to be as follows : 



COUNTRIES. Miles. 



Sweden and Norway. . 1 6,773 



.Russia 14,072 



France 2,851 



Spain 2,657 



Italy 2,846 



Turkey 2,289 



Greece 1,841 



Germany 1,S26 



Austria-Hungary 1,243 Total ,. 48,299 



The United Kingdom, which is not included 

 in the above, has a coast-line of 7,986 miles, of 

 which 4,978 miles belong to Great Britain, and 

 3,008 to Ireland. If we add to the 48,298 

 miles of coast-line the boundary between Rus- 

 sia and Asia, 3,548 miles, we get for the entire 

 perimeter of the continent 51,846 miles. 



The area of the principal gulfs and bays of 

 Europe is as follows : 



* The figures given for the islands of the Mediterranean 

 in another part of this article are 32.522 square miles. But 

 this embraces the islands belonging to Europe only. This sea 

 also contains 6,743 square miles of islands belonging to Asia 

 and Africa, making a total of 89,265 square miles of islands in 

 the Mediterranean. 



t As the North Sea has no natural boundaries, geographers 

 are forced to fix arbitrary ones. Those assumed by General 



COUNTRIES. Miles. 



Portugal 776 



Denmark 730 



Netherlands 647 



Roumania 151 



Belgium 53 



Montenegro 30 



Great Britain 9 



Strelbitzky are as follow : On the west, the Strait of Dover, 

 the eastern coast of Great Britain, the Orkney Islands, and 

 the Shetland Islands ; on the north, a straight line passing 

 from the northern point of the Shetland Islands to the penin- 

 sula of Stadtland, on the western coast of Norway ; on the 

 east, the coast of Norway to the Naze, and from this point to 

 Nissum Fiord, on the western coast of Jutland : and, on the 

 south, the continent of Europe to the Strait of Dover. 



