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Page 31 - America would appear near the centre of the view, having the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific on the west.
Page 26 - DIVISIONS, namely, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic oceans.
Page 69 - ... 1,500 co-operative cheese factories and creameries in Canada. In most of the provinces there are excellent opportunities for intelligent farmers with some means, to make dairy farming pay well. There are great areas of unoccupied fertile land in the Canadian North-west ; and in the older provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Columbia, improved farms can be purchased in neighbourhoods where all the snug conveniences of life may be...
Page 71 - Including a history of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, and Manitoba ; of the Northwest Territory and of the Island of Newfoundland.
Page 7 - We cannot show them exactly as they are; but we will call the top of the plan north, the right hand east, the bottom south, and the left hand west.
Page 11 - What is an isthmus ? An isthmus is a narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land.
Page 37 - LESSON XIX. LAKES AND ISLANDS, [To be Read.] Lakes. — We will now learn something about the "Great Lakes" of North America, for they are very remarkable. Their names are : Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. They are really vast inland fresh-water seas. Lake Superior, the largest, is 355 miles long and 160 miles wide. These lakes are joined together by straits and rivers, and great cities have grown up on their shores in consequence of the commerce that is carried...
Page 52 - States. North Carolina. South Carolina. . Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas Arkansas Tennessee Indian Territory. Missouri Virginia Oklahoma , Number of Acres. 1,211,266 1,908,766 3,325,439 223,487 2,601,082 2,667,466 1,158,222 6,591,041 1,506,400 870,369 404,093 68,321 ( 46,563 74,4" Total 22,656,956 A STUDY IN COTTON.
Page 5 - Other directions are northeast, halfway between north and east; northwest, halfway between north and west ; southeast, halfway between south and east; and southwest, halfway between south and west.
Page 89 - This may be done however in the case of what has been called Traduction, where all the subjects are singular and have identical denotation, eg London is the largest city in the world, London is the capital of England, The capital of England is the largest city in the world. It is done exactly in every Mediate Inference (Traductional or other) in which the denotations of all the Terms are determinate, eg The Syndics and Night Watch are two of Rembrandt's masterpieces; The Syndics and Night Watch are...