Elementary Course in Geography: Designed for Primary and Intermediate Grades, and as a Complete Shorter Course |
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Page 21 - TT will be clear from what has gone before that the daily *• movement of the stars is an apparent one due to the real movement of the earth in an exactly opposite direction, and that the stars in the heavens appear to rise in the east and set in the west, because the earth rotates from west to east. And now comes this question : The period of twenty-four hours which is so familiar, and which is divided roughly into...
Page 22 - ... because it is a round object; the word hemi means half; so half of the earth is a hemisphere. The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres or half spheres, as you might divide an orange into two hemispheres by tying a string round the middle. The half between the equator and the north pole is the northern hemisphere : the other half, between the equator and the south pole, is the southern hemisphere. Questions on Lessons IX. and XI. 1. What is the earth's axis ? — An imaginary line upon...
Page 46 - The cochineal insect is small, rugose, and of a deep mulberry colour. It feeds on several species of cacti. These insects are scraped from the plants into bags, killed by boiling water, and then dried in the sun. Those are preferred which are plump, of a silvery appearance, and which yield when rubbed to powder a brilliant crimson. It is estimated that 70,000 of these minute insects are necessary to make a single pound of cochineal. In 1855 we imported 1,400 tons of cochineal, valued at ^700,000.
Page 108 - Parents are made by law thin e s to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen years; and every young man is forced to serve in the army for several years.
Page 119 - Britain and other European countries, from various ports upon the coasts of Asia Minor and Syria ; and with the countries to the eastward of Turkey by means of caravans which cross the Syrian and Arabian deserts. Smyrna, on the coast of the Archipelago ; Tretuzond, on the Black Sea ; and Beyrout, on the Syrian coast, are the principal seats of maritime trade.
Page 23 - The Longitude of a place is its distance, east or west, from a given meridian.- It is reckoned in degrees, minutes, and seconds, and cannot exceed 180°, or a semicircumference.
Page 3 - Not at all ; let me tell you. When the cane is right for cutting down, it is stripped of its tops and leaves, cut up into short pieces, tied into bundles, and taken to the mill. Here the canes are crushed between iron rollers, somewhat as apples are in making cider ; and the juice is then boiled into sirup in large shallow pans.
Page 15 - ... portion of water stretching up into the land is a gulf or bay. Below is a picture of a lake, and also of a gulf or bay. The lake is in the distance, at the foot of the mountain. Near by is a bay, with a light-house on the cape, to prevent the sailors from running their vessels ashore in the darkness. An isthmus is a narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land ; and the form of water that corresponds to an isthmus is a strait.
Page 8 - A map is a representation of a portion of the earth's surface on a convenient scale to show the relative points and natural features of the earth.