First Lessons in Geography |
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Africa animals ANTARCTIC ANTARCTIC CIRCLE ANTARCTIC OCEAN Arctic Ocean Asia ATLANTIC OCEAN Australia Austria-Hungary beautiful birds body of water buildings called Canada Canal capital cattle Caucasian race central Central America chief occupations cloth coal coast cocoon coffee cold continent corn cotton date palms deal desk dried earth eastern eggs England Eskimos Ethiopians Europe farming feet high fish flax forests frigid zone fruit gold grains grand-division hair horses India rubber Indians iron islands kinds lakes land largest city leather live machinery Malay Malay race manufactured Mexico minerals Mississippi River mountains Name North America north frigid zone north temperate zone northern palms places plants grow pole race raised rice salt seeds sheep shoes silk silkworm silver skin snow sometimes south frigid southern stalks stones sugar sugar-cane Tell things thread torrid zone trees United volcano warm western wheat wool
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Page 34 - Mankind has been classed by different ethnologists into a variety of races or types of humanity; the most generally accepted classification for the last century being Blumenbach's division into five races — the Caucasian, or white race; the Mongolian, or yellow race; the Ethiopian, or black race; the American, or red race; and the Malay, or brown race. The only race which has figured in history is the Caucasian. The history of the civilized world is the history of the Caucasian race. The great...
Page 11 - A peninsula is a body of land almost surrounded by water. An isthmus is a neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land.
Page 44 - Congress is divided into two parts, — the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state sends two Senators to Congress and one or more Representatives according to its population.
Page 42 - 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 12 - What is a river ? A river is a large stream of water flowing through the, land. What is a lake ? A lake is a body of water surrounded by land.
Page 5 - It looks flat to us because it is so large that we can see only a small part of it at a time.
Page 45 - community revolution" has been more extensive — and, one might say, explosive — in New York than in any other city in the United States.
Page 10 - Pacific Ocean, The Arctic Ocean, The Antarctic Ocean, and The Indian Ocean. "Seas...
Page 13 - The one around the north pole is called the north frigid zone, and the one around the south pole is called the south frigid zone.