The United StatesD.C. Heath, 1910 - 215 páginas |
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Página 206 - Maine. Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania.
Página 73 - ... without saying that this up-and-down motion proceeds so smoothly that it cannot be directly detected by even the most sensitive physical apparatus. The observed fact that the tides in rocks are about four times smaller than the tides in water indicates a comparatively high rigidity of our globe, and, Moon and the Sun are on the same side of the Earth and are "pulling together.
Página 76 - ... the objects from which they come, eg, violet, orange, etc. Such changes in the level of the land are even now in progress in many places, though the process is so slow that usually years, and even centuries, must pass before the changes become evident. For instance (or for example), the land along the coast of New Jersey is sinking at the rate of about two feet a century, while that around Hudson Bay is rising. I have often heard this pronunciation, for instance in New York. Take a few of them,...
Página 30 - Dakotas, and more than twice as large as the six New England states, together with New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Página 137 - The United States is by no means the only country in which the civilization and literature of England are being carried forward under new conditions. For centuries, and especially during the last one hundred and fifty years, the English people have been building outside of the narrow limits of their island a great Empire that is now ninety-one times as large...
Página 12 - ... the Pacific coast and another on the Atlantic coast? Mr. KING. I do not; I think you will have to devise it. Mr. CLARK. What you really want to do is to bring the Atlantic coast up so that it will make you all right on the Pacific coast. Isnt that what you want? Mr. KING. No, sir; there is more used in the eastern part of the country than in the western part. Mr. COCKRAN. You do not really care where it comes from, so long as you get the $9,000.000 do you?
Página 11 - ... expect wet and stormy weather. These two types of weather correspond respectively to a condition of high atmospheric pressure or anticyclone and a state of low atmospheric pressure or cyclone. The winds in a cyclone are often strong and swirl round the centre of lowest pressure in great spirals with a direction opposite to that of the hands of a clock. When anticyclonic conditions prevail, the winds are light and move round the area of highest pressure in the same direction as the hands of a...
Página 25 - Inland they spread through to the eastern and southern territory of what is now Canada and the northern part of the United States to the Rocky Mountains.
Página 91 - A wide belt of country lying next to the mountains on the east is nearly level, or covered with low hills with river valleys among them. This section is sometimes called the Piedmont Belt. The word piedmont means foot of the mountain. The name is given to the section because it lies along the foot of the Copy right by Keystone View Co.