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" What is the shape of the earth ? The earth is round like an orange or a ball. "
Maury's Revised Elementary Geography: Designed for Primary and Intermediate ... - Page 8
by Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1900 - 120 pages
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Modern geography

Robert Anderson (schoolmaster.) - 1856 - 408 pages
.... 183 .. .. 197 .. .. 200 China, Ac. .. 116 .. 121 PALKMTl Turker in As!a .. 122 INTRODUCTION. FORM OF THE EARTH. THE Earth is round, like an orange or a ball, and the following are the facts generally referred to, in proof of this :— 1. Vessels can sail round...
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First Steps in Geography

Sophia S. Cornell - 1876 - 84 pages
...following words : Earth, Ge-og'ra-phy, Plan'et, De-scrip'tion, Sci'ence, Corn-posed'. What is the Earth? What is the shape of the Earth ? The Earth is round, like an orange or a ball. What science teaches us about the surface of the Earth? Geography. What is Geography ? What do you...
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First Lessons in Geography for Young Children: Designed as an Introduction ...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Geography - 1885 - 86 pages
...FIRST LESSONS IN G.EOGRAPHT. INTRODUCTION. What is Geography ? Geography is a description of the Earth. What is the shape of the Earth ? The Earth is round like a ball. What part of the Earth is described in Geography ? The surface, or outside. How is the surface...
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Butler's Elementary Geography

Jacques Wardlaw Redway - Geography - 1888 - 146 pages
...What is the earth ? The earth is a planet, much like the stars we see in the sky on a clear night. What is the shape of the earth ? The earth is round like a globe. What proofs have we that the earth is round ? Men have sailed round it, and its shadow is...
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Lessons in Geography for Little Learners

John Duncan Quackenbos - Geography - 1889 - 80 pages
...Plants, Fish'es. What does Geography tell us about ? Geography tells us about the Earth on which we live. What is the shape of the Earth ? The Earth is round like a Ball. Of what part of the Earth does Geography tell us? Of the outside of the Earth. What is the...
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Elementary Geography: Designed for Primary and Intermediate Classes

Matthew Fontaine Maury - Geography - 1899 - 114 pages
...circumference of the earth. The distance through the earth, or its diameter, is about 8,000 miles. For Recitation. What is the shape of the earth ? The...know that the earth is shaped like a ball, because if we travel on it, always keeping in one direction, we come back at last to the place from which we set...
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The History of the County of Bruce and of the Minor Municipalities Therein ...

Norman Robertson, Bruce County Historical Society (Ont.) - Bruce (Ont. : County) - 1906 - 610 pages
...round the sun ; a square thing can't roll, therefore the earth must be round.' " Another answer as to the shape of the earth : ' The earth is round like an orange, flat at both ends. When it was first made it was round like a ball, but it has been spinning so fast...
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