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Page 43 - Mexico on the south; and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Page 10 - You had better look at the map of Asia. The top of the map is north, the right hand east, the bottom part south, and the left hand west. Now this great division of the world is separated, as you will see on the map, into thirteen different countries. In the northern part is Siberia, a cold and desolate country, inhabited, for the most part, by people of low stature, who dress in furs in...
Page 14 - While we are on these islands we may per haps get a sight of the Sea Serpent. He is said to be as large as the mast of a ship, and has frequently been seen, along the shores of New England. Here is a picture of him. 3. Having returned to Portsmouth we will get into the stage and travel through Exeter, and Dover, to Concord. At Exeter there is a fine Academy, where boys are tuught grammar, Latin, Greek and other things.
Page 3 - THE CHILD'S BOOK OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY. Designed as an easy and entertaining work for the use of beginners. With sixty engravings and eighteen maps.
Page 58 - A continent, with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other, ought to take the hint and be very clean.
Page 16 - What bounds it on the north — on the east — on the south — on the west...
Page 58 - France for the last two thousand years or more. cause we have the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Page 50 - ... Laurentides. The area of this basin is 530,000 square miles. 130,000 of which are covered by water. Of the remaining 400,000 square miles only 70,000 are in the United States, the residue belonging to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec; and of the 330,000 square miles thus allotted to Canada, 280,000 are on the northern side of the St. Lawrence and the great lakes.
Page 50 - Into the gulf of Mexico? What river flows into the gulf of California ? What...
Page 62 - Let the pnpil be asked similar questions respecting each of the United States, and the other countries of North and South America.