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ANTICOSTI

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTICOSTI , an See also:

island of the See also:province of See also:Quebec, See also:Canada, situated in the Gulf of St See also:Lawrence, between 490 and 5o° N.., and between 61° 40' and 64° 3o' W., with a length of 135 M. and a breadth of 30 M. See also:Population 250, consisting chiefly of the keepers of the numerous lighthouses erected by the See also:Canadian See also:government. The See also:coast is dangerous, and the only two harbours, See also:Ellis See also:Bay and See also:Fox Bay, are very indifferent. Anticosti was sighted by Jacques See also:Cartier in 1534, and named Assomption. In 1763 it was ceded by See also:France to See also:Britain, and in 1774 became See also:part of Canada. See also:Wild animals, especially bears, are numerous, but See also:prior to 1896 the See also:fish and See also:game had been almost exterminated by indiscriminate slaughter. In that See also:year Anticosti and the See also:shore See also:fisheries were leased to M. Menier, the See also:French See also:chocolate manufacturer, who converted the island into a game preserve; and attempted to develop its resources of See also:lumber, See also:peat and minerals. See See also:Logan, See also:Geological Survey of Canada, See also:Report of Progress from its Commencement to 1863 (See also:Montreal, 1863-1865) ; E. Billings, Geo.-logical Survey of Canada: See also:Catalogue of the See also:Silurian Fossils of Anticosti (Montreal, 1866) ; J. Schmitt, Anticosti (See also:Paris, 1904). the conviction that the See also:pope in See also:Rome was See also:Antichrist.

And if in the Augustana the expression of this conviction was suppressed for See also:

political reasons, in the Articles of See also:Schmalkalden, See also:drawn up by him, See also:Luther propounded it in the most uncompromising See also:fashion. This See also:sentence was for him an articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae.

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