Elementary Inductive GeographyPotter & Putnam Company, 1900 - 228 páginas |
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... engaged in order to secure a living - in the social life of the people as this may be affected by the peculiar nature of each season of the year . By means of illustrations and text the child's interest is awakened in the life of other ...
... engaged in order to secure a living - in the social life of the people as this may be affected by the peculiar nature of each season of the year . By means of illustrations and text the child's interest is awakened in the life of other ...
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... engaged in sheep - raising , but Australia is espe- cially noted for this industry . Describe the scenes on page 56 . Some farmers are engaged in bee - keep- ing , and send honey to the market , to sell . About how much is honey worth ...
... engaged in sheep - raising , but Australia is espe- cially noted for this industry . Describe the scenes on page 56 . Some farmers are engaged in bee - keep- ing , and send honey to the market , to sell . About how much is honey worth ...
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... engaged are called miners . They usually work in mountainous sections , because minerals are more often found there . Some miner- als , especially coal , are found in the lowlands . Make a list of the minerals which are mined in the ...
... engaged are called miners . They usually work in mountainous sections , because minerals are more often found there . Some miner- als , especially coal , are found in the lowlands . Make a list of the minerals which are mined in the ...
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... engaged in LUMBERING . Great lumber camps are established in the midst of these districts in winter . Men cut down the trees and cut them up into logs . They are then transported to the river . In the spring , after the ice is gone ...
... engaged in LUMBERING . Great lumber camps are established in the midst of these districts in winter . Men cut down the trees and cut them up into logs . They are then transported to the river . In the spring , after the ice is gone ...
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... engaged in FISHING . They catch , cure , and pack fish for market . The best fish for food , and the largest numbers , are caught in the waters of the cooler temperate belts . Off the coast of Norway are of great value . Find all places ...
... engaged in FISHING . They catch , cure , and pack fish for market . The best fish for food , and the largest numbers , are caught in the waters of the cooler temperate belts . Off the coast of Norway are of great value . Find all places ...
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Africa Alaska animals ARCTIC ARCTIC CIRCLE Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic ATLANTIC OCEAN Australia Balkan Plateau belong belts Bering Bering Sea bodies of water boundary Brazil Cape China climate coastal plains cold Continent cotton Describe DESERT earth east eastern Europe Family farming Find flow forest fruits grain grand divisions grass grow Gulf harbors highlands homes important Indians industry islands lakes land largest city live Locate the capital lowland manufacturing Mexico mineral Mississippi moun Name and locate North America northern occupations OCEAN Pacific PACIFIC OCEAN PENINSULA plants plateau port principal railroads region river basin rock Rocky Russia seaport Siberia Sierra Nevada slope soil southern Strait streams sugar summer surface tains Tell temperate countries tion trade centers trees TROPIC TROPIC OF CANCER TROPIC OF CAPRICORN ture United Valley warm water-parting West western coast winds winter YARD
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Página 7 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree; It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.
Página 8 - Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Página 8 - ... flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles? Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers to-day, A whisper inside me seemed to say, " You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot : You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Página 91 - THE SEA. I am the Sea. I hold the land As one holds an apple in his hand, Hold it fast with sleepless eyes, Watching the continents sink and rise. Out of my bosom the mountains grow, Back to its depths they crumble slow ; The earth is a helpless child to me. I am the Sea I I am the Sea.
Página 91 - Granite to me is potter's clay: Under the touch of my careless waves It rises in turrets and sinks in caves; The iron cliffs that edge the land I grind to pebbles, and sift to sand, And beach-grass bloweth and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday; It is but a moment of sport to me — I am the Sea! I am the Sea. In my bosom deep Wealth and Wonder and Beauty sleep; Wealth and Wonder and Beauty rise In changing splendor of sunset skies, And comfort the earth with rains and snows Till waves...
Página 216 - Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Orleans, Detroit, Milwaukee,' Washington, Newark, Jersey City, Louisville, and Minneapolis — embracing altogether a populution of 11,971,000 persons.
Página 216 - San Francisco, Cal. Savannah, Ga. Schenectady, NY Scranton, Pa. Seattle, Wash. Sioux City, Iowa Somerville, Mass.
Página 91 - I am the Sea. The earth I sway; Granite to me is potter's clay; Under the touch of my careless waves It rises in turrets and sinks in caves; The iron cliffs that edge the land I grind to pebbles and sift to sand, And beach-grass bloweth and children play In what were the rocks of yesterday. It is but a moment of sport to me. I am the Sea ! I am the Sea. In my bosom deep Wealth and Wonder and Beauty sleep; Wealth and Wonder and Beauty rise In changing splendor of sunset skies.
Página 216 - Terre Haute, Ind. Toledo, Ohio Topeka, Kan. Trenton, NJ Troy, NY Utica, NY Washington, DC...