Elementary Inductive GeographyPotter & Putnam Company, 1900 - 228 páginas |
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... importance as a grain food , especially for animals . When America was discovered maize was found to be the grain food ... important grain . They will grow in a cooler and moister country than wheat . They PAMPAS GRASS . are cultivated ...
... importance as a grain food , especially for animals . When America was discovered maize was found to be the grain food ... important grain . They will grow in a cooler and moister country than wheat . They PAMPAS GRASS . are cultivated ...
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... important are in the picture . They all have pouches in which they carry their young . The Toothless Family is of little im- portance . Find out if the turtle , the frog , and the toad have teeth . The tur tle belongs to the Family of ...
... important are in the picture . They all have pouches in which they carry their young . The Toothless Family is of little im- portance . Find out if the turtle , the frog , and the toad have teeth . The tur tle belongs to the Family of ...
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... important of all occupations . Upon the farm or agricultural products the great masses of the people depend for food . Name some of these products . People are farming in every country in the world , except where it is extremely cold ...
... important of all occupations . Upon the farm or agricultural products the great masses of the people depend for food . Name some of these products . People are farming in every country in the world , except where it is extremely cold ...
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... importance among the occupations . By MANUFACTURING we mean the making of some- thing by hand or by machinery . HOME OF THE IRON INDUSTRY The power which drives the machinery for manu facturing is either water , steam , or electricity ...
... importance among the occupations . By MANUFACTURING we mean the making of some- thing by hand or by machinery . HOME OF THE IRON INDUSTRY The power which drives the machinery for manu facturing is either water , steam , or electricity ...
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... important industry . It is the digging of minerals from mines in the earth . Men thus engaged are called miners . They usually work in mountainous sections , because minerals are more often found there . Some miner- als , especially ...
... important industry . It is the digging of minerals from mines in the earth . Men thus engaged are called miners . They usually work in mountainous sections , because minerals are more often found there . Some miner- als , especially ...
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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...