 | Eli Meeker - Arithmetic - 1832 - 182 pages
...the western continent divided? The western continent is divided into North America and South America. What is an island ? An island is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water ; as -Great Britain, Newfoundland, Cuba, Madagascar. What is a peninsula 1 A peninsula is a portion... | |
 | George Woolworth Colton - Geography - 1866 - 94 pages
...Africa, and Australia. 10t How is the Western Continent Divided ? Into North and South America. 11, What is an Island ? An Isl'and is a portion of Land entirely surrounded by Water.'How do you spell Island ? 12. Wliich is the largest Island in the World ? Australia. The Continents... | |
 | George Woolworth Colton - Geography - 1866 - 90 pages
...Africa, and Austra'lia. 10, Sow is the Western Continent Divided ? Into North and South Amer'ica. 11, What is an Island ? An Isl'and is a portion of Land entirely surrounded by Water. How do you spell Island ? 12, Which is the largest Island in the World ? Australia. The Continents... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Geography - 1881 - 144 pages
...shall thus have the divisions of land and-water, the continents and the grand divisions of the earth. What is an Island? An Island is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water. Ireland is an island. Cuba and Madagascar are islands. What is a Peninsula f The word Peninsula comes... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1881 - 152 pages
...every summer by thousands of persons who wish to receive the benefit of sea-air and seabathing. XL— ISLAND. An Island is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water. An island has water all round it. The continents are really islands, because they are entirely surrounded... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 398 pages
...indents, or runs into, the land. A bay, sea, or gulf, is an arm of the ocean which indents the land. AN ISLAND. — An island is a portion of land entirely surrounded by water. Robinson Crusoe lived on an island. How did he get there? Why could he not leave it? LANGUAGE WORK—... | |
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What is an Island ? An Isl'and is a portion of Land entirely surrounded by Water.'How do you spell Island ? 12. 