Scribner's Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World (based on Guyot's Introduction) with Primary LessonsScribner, 1882 - 298 páginas |
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SCRIBNERS GEOGRAPHICAL READER A. (Arnold) 1807-1884 Introduct Guyot Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 208 - Pleistocene, horses occupied our country from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and far down to into Mexico.
Página 211 - Congress consists of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two senators from each State.
Página 85 - A volcano. larger than North America. Yet we know that there is about three times as much water as land on the earth's surface. What a great earth it is on which we live, and how many beautiful things we have already seen in it ! We shall find many more when we go to the other continents, as we shall do by and by. i\ XXII. -THE WEST INDIES. Ha-vau'-a. | ve-ran'-da. | ba-na'-na [-o.lt
Página 8 - ... great circle or ring. Everywhere, all round you, the world and the sky seem to touch one another. It is not that they really do so ; but the eye can see no farther, because the world, everywhere beyond this circle, dips down out of sight, as the sides of an orange might to a fly on the top. The place where the earth and sky seem to meet is called the horizon. All over the world, wherever anybody stands so that he can have an unbroken view, he finds himself standing in the middle of such a circle....
Página 92 - ... length, are to be seen at every moment ; and the air is filled with the hum of brilliant insects whose sting is poisonous. 8. Here and there long-legged swamp-birds wade about, darting their long beaks into the water after the frogs and snakes, which they devour ; while whole 92 GEOGRAPHICAL READER.
Página 35 - The country on each side of the Lower Mississippi, for hundreds of miles from its mouth, is very low and flat. It is one great plain of black earth and sand, in which not even a single stone can be seen. The parts near the river are a little higher than the rest; and they are covered with great plantations of sugarcane, looking like fields of corn.
Página 222 - ... are chiefly farming States, raising grain, tobacco, and fruits. In the other three, manufacturing, mining, and commerce are also very important. Long Island and Central New Jersey are hardly more than vast gardens for supplying the great cities with fruits and vegetables. The mountainforests occupy many people in lumbering ; and large numbers work at the oyster-beds and other coast fisheries. Agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and commerce are the leading occupations. Pennsylvania leads in mining,...
Página 8 - Some time, when you are older, you will understand why this is so : now you can only remember it. Try to remember, also, that the line where the earth and sky seem to meet, is called the horizon. 5. That part of the horizon where you see the sun rise, is called east. Where it sets, is west. The sun at noon is in the south, and high in the sky. Now, if you stand with your right hand toward the east and your left toward the west, you will face the north, and the south will be behind you. If you remember...
Página 187 - INTRODUCTION. I. — THE EARTH. (PART I., PAGES 1-3.) IN the preceding part of the book, you have been reading, making imaginary journeys all over the world. In this part, are lessons about the most important countries, to be studied and learned by heart. This is a different kind of work ; but you will find it just as pleasant, for you wish to become wise, and every lesson will help you a little in gaining a knowledge of the great world. The earth is the world on which we live. The shape of the earth...
Página 92 - All the morning the whole sky has been perfectly clear and of the brightest and most beautiful blue. Now banks of white clouds are piled up here and there. They grow thick and dark and rapidly become larger; and soon the whole sky is black. The lightning darts in blinding flashes from one side of the heavens to the other. Terrible peals of thunder shake the earth, and the...