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Page 50 - ... Islands, and the Southern United States of America. Moreton Bay and the northern parts of Australia are admirably suited, both in soil and climate, to sugar culture. Manufacture of Sugar. — When the cane is ripe, it is cut down, deprived of its top and leaves, cut up into convenient lengths, tied up in bundles, and taken to the mill. Here the canes are crushed between iron rollers, the juice from them flowing into vessels, where it is boiled with the addition of lime, and evaporated to the...
Page 11 - ... are the names of the oceans ? Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean. Arctic Ocean, and Antarctic Ocean. What is a lake ? A lake is a body of water wholly or very nearly surrounded by land. What is a 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.
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Page 3 - ... the very places they set out from. What does that prove ? It proves that the earth is round like a ball. Why does it prove that the earth is round ? Because a circular path is the only one by which one can reach the place he started from, without turning about and going back. What other proof have we that the earth is round ? When a ship is coming in from sea, the tops of the masts are seen first, then the sails, and then the hull. Why does that prove that the earth is round? Because if the surface...
Page 69 - Lawrence, with which river, and the great gulf into which it expands, are connected the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, together containing by far the greater portion of the population of the Dominion.
Page 79 - ... posterior legs are longer than the anterior, and the animal when feeding sits upon its haunches, holding its food between its short fore-paws. The ears are very large and broad. The fur, which is very thick, soft, and of a greyish colour, reaches us through the South American markets. Chinchilla fur is greatly admired for winter clothing, and is made into muffs, mantles, boas, cloak linings, trimmings, and other articles for ladies
Page 90 - They were to elect teachers and pay them, and to compel parents to send their children to school between the ages of five and thirteen to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Page 116 - Newcastle, Pa., New Haven, Conn., New Orleans, La., Newport, Ky., Newton, Mass., New York, NY, Norfolk, Va., Oakland, Cal., Omaha, Neb., Oshkosh, Wis., . Passaic, N.
Page 114 - S. of the sun's verticality to the earth's surface, the distance being in each case 23V2°; the northern tropic is called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn.
Page 25 - ... of the territory they drain. Look on the map at the dark, irregular figures that are meant to represent mountains. See how mountainous some parts of this continent are, and how the mountains stand in long chains or ranges extending always northward and southward. Near the coast, in the eastern part, extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence nearly to the Gulf of Mexico, is what is called the Appalachian NORTH AMERICA.