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Europe bounded

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  • Title: Europe bounded
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00674
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Europe bounded." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 06 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00674.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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Europe

  • bounded

  • north Arctic ocean
  • east—Atlantic
  • west—Black sea, Caspian, Caucasus mts.—Caspian sea, Ural river & mts (Asia)
  • South Mediterranean

  • Countries

  • —Iceland, 60,000
  • —Norway, 1,328,000
  • —Sweden, 3,440,000
  • —Denmark, 2,300,000
  • —Russia, in Europe, 54,000,000
  • —England, 18,000,000 (inc. Wales)
  • —Scotland, 2,889,000
  • —Ireland, 6,516,000
  • —France, 36,000,000
  • —Spain, 14,000,000
  • —Portugal,
  • —Austria 36,515,000
  • —Prussia,
  • —Netherlands 3,363,000
  • —Belgium, 4,360,000
  • —Switzerland 2,390,000
  • —Sardinia, 5,000,000
  • Rome 3,000,000
  • Naples 9,000,000
  • —(Hungary 11,000,000
  • —(Venice & Lombardy 5,000,000
  • —Germany, Bavaria,
  • —Wurtemberg, Baden,
  • —Saxony, 2,000,000
  • (Greece 221,100,000
  • Parma Sicily

  • Seas

  • White Sea north Russia
  • North sea
  • English Channel
  • Bay of Biscay
  • Mediterranean
  • Baltic, between Sweden & Russia
  • Gulf of Bothnia ditto
  • Gulf of Venice, (Medit)
  • Black sea (south Russia)
  • Caspian (south west)
  • Zuyder zee ^a great bay in the Netherlands
  • The Schelt
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