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Staten Island
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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1, belonging to New York State, and comprising the county of Richmond; is a picturesque island (14 m. long), 5 m. SW. of New York, separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from New Jersey by the Kill van Kull and Staten Island Sound; pretty watering-villages skirt its shores, and Forts Richmond and Wadsworth guard the entrance to the Narrows. 2, A lofty, precipitous, and rugged island, snow-clad most of the year, belonging to Argentina, lying to the SE. of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by Le Maire Strait (40 m.).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Staten Island'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/staten-island.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Staten Island'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/staten-island.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
