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Page 272 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 103 - What is a sea, gulf, or bay ? It is a portion of water stretching up into the land. What is a strait ? It is a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. What is a channel ? It is a broad and deep strait. From the vast surface of the ocean water is thus rising into the air all the time, and appears in the form of clouds. When the clouds are very thick and heavy with moisture, the little particles run together and form drops, that fall to the earth in...
Page 115 - The United States was the first country in the history of the world to offer freedom to all.
Page 48 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 88 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 83 - Distance measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds north or south of the equator is called latitude.
Page 106 - XXV we learned that the surface of the earth is divided into land and water; and that the land consists of six large divisions called continents, and many smaller divisions called islands.
Page 88 - That part of the earth's surface which is between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is called the Torrid, or Hot Zone. We sometunes call it also the "Tropical Belt," or simply the "Tropics," because it is bounded by the two Tropic Circles.
Page 140 - North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona.