The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the WorldAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 282 páginas |
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The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World Arnold Guyot,Mary Howe Smith Pratt Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World Arnold Guyot,Mary Howe Smith Pratt Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Africa Amazon animals Appalachian Mountains Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Plain AUSTRIA-HUNGARY banks beautiful boats books to map border broad buildings called capital coast cold continents cotton cross Danube earth east England Europe farms farther fields flowers flows France fruits gold grainfields grass green ground groves grow Gulf of Mexico herds hills horses houses Hudson Indies islands Lake Huron lakes land largest city live look Mexico middle miles Mississippi moun mountain range mouth musk ox named narrow nearly North America northern Pacific Pacific Ocean pastures plants pleasant prairies pretty prime meridian railroad rain region rich river rock Rocky Mountains Russia seen ships shores side slopes snow sometimes southern spring steamers steep stream surface table-land tains tall things trees United valleys villages vineyards warm western wheat whole wild winter York Zone
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Página 208 - European species which infests many different plants, and it is spread throughout our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Página 184 - 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 184 - With the wheat- fields that nod and the rivers that 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 hardly can think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayers today, A whisper within me seemed to say: "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot! You can love and think, and the Earth can not.
Página 241 - The United States of America and the Republic of Panama being desirous to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Congress of the United States of America having passed an act approved June 28, 1902, in furtherance of that object, by which the President of the United States is authorized to acquire within a reasonable time the control of the necessary territory of the Republic of Colombia, and the sovereignty...
Página 184 - With the wheat-fields that nod, and the rivers that 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, tho' you are such a dot ; You can love and think, and the earth cannot.
Página 201 - America has a hot dimate, our country has a temperate climate, and the Arctic shores have a cold climate. Countries alike in climate are situated about the same distance from the Equator: so we think of them as forming belts, or zones, around the earth. There are four parallels, with names, which mark the boundaries of the zones. The climate of a country is the state of the air. It may be warm, cold, or temperate ; moist or dry, healthy or unhealthy. The hottest countries lie on and near the Equator,...
Página 7 - ... 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 214 - WThich part is dry? Which is warmer, the Atlantic or Pacific coast? Name some cultivated plants in the north, the middle, 'and the south. XVIII. How many States in the Union ? How many Territo ries? In which part are most of the States? The Territories? Where is the District of Columbia? Alaska? How did Alaska become ours? XIX. What is the government of the United States ? What is the population ? What is a republic ? What is the highest officer ? By what body are the laws made ? Of what does Congress...
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 - 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...