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... railroads across our try if they had to go the high mountains . rivers have cut long ys across many of the es , and the railroads beside the streams . ten a wagon road or a bad must be built over ge of mountains . Men look for the ...
... railroads across our try if they had to go the high mountains . rivers have cut long ys across many of the es , and the railroads beside the streams . ten a wagon road or a bad must be built over ge of mountains . Men look for the ...
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... Railroads bring cattle , grain , and things to these cities , and carry back kinds of goods needed on the farms the mines . In places the cars cross the on high bridges . In times of flood or ice floats down the stream , costly bridge ...
... Railroads bring cattle , grain , and things to these cities , and carry back kinds of goods needed on the farms the mines . In places the cars cross the on high bridges . In times of flood or ice floats down the stream , costly bridge ...
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... railroad . Rain and rivers hav made many valleys . Railroads are built mor easily in valleys than over hills or high rough land . Streams have cut many deep gaps , in which trains pass through high ranges . Spreading soil . The water ...
... railroad . Rain and rivers hav made many valleys . Railroads are built mor easily in valleys than over hills or high rough land . Streams have cut many deep gaps , in which trains pass through high ranges . Spreading soil . The water ...
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... railroads follow rivers ? I how streams may help to make 1 better . y do some lands have too much and others too little ? What does rd " irrigate " mean ? How and may dams help farmers to raise better crops ? w can lakes cause rivers to ...
... railroads follow rivers ? I how streams may help to make 1 better . y do some lands have too much and others too little ? What does rd " irrigate " mean ? How and may dams help farmers to raise better crops ? w can lakes cause rivers to ...
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... railroads , or even by b rivers and lakes . We often need thing far across the sea . These must come in 123. Making baskets for market re made than it would be to haul the the raw material . Iful workmen . Some cities are noted for g ...
... railroads , or even by b rivers and lakes . We often need thing far across the sea . These must come in 123. Making baskets for market re made than it would be to haul the the raw material . Iful workmen . Some cities are noted for g ...
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Africa animals Arctic Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Australia British Isles built Canada Canal capital Cascade Range cattle China climate cloth coal cold Columbus continent corn cotton Cuba delta desert earth east equator Eskimo Europe farms fish forests frigid zone grain grow GULF OF MEXICO Helps highland Indian Indies iron islands Isthmus of Panama kinds lakes land largest Leading facts live lumber mills Mississippi mountains Name nation north temperate zone ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean peninsula plains plants port prairies rain raise reach region rivers flow rock round sail salt SCALE OF MILES seaport sheep ships shore Siberia slopes snow soil South America southern Strait streams sugar Tell torrid zone trade trees TROPIC TROPIC OF CANCER TROPIC OF CAPRICORN valleys warm Western wheat winds
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Page 69 - ... the plane of its orbit. The sun is vertical at the tropic of Cancer at the time of the summer solstice, and at the tropic of Capricorn at the time of the winter solstice. The parallels just touched by the circle of illumination at the time of the solstices are the polar circles. They are as far from the poles as the tropics are from the equator. They are therefore in latitude about 66^°.
Page 66 - up" and the South Pole as being "down." Instead, thru words, repeated often, the teacher should stress that north is toward the North Pole and south is toward the South Pole.
Page 179 - On the second (1498-1500) he reached the coast of South America at the mouth of the Orinoco River. Complaints came to Ferdinand and Isabella about Columbus' tyrannical conduct toward the natives, and a ship was sent to investigate.
Page 112 - The sap is not boiled long enough to make the sugar form in it. All the sweetness of the sugar thus remains in the sirup. Molasses is the liquid that remains when the sugar is taken from the boiled juice. Sugar and molasses are made in Louisiana, but in almost all other parts of the South where sugar cane can be raised, only sirup is made from the sap.
Page ii - The book is put in story form to arouse interest, and thus aid the memory. While the stories add to the number of pages, they lighten the study by holding the attention. The size of the book is partly due also to the large number of pictures and maps, of which there are more than six hundred.
Page 115 - Locate the following places : Boston, Providence, Worcester, New Haven, Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge, Bridgeport, Hartford, New Bedford, Lynn, Lawrence, Waterbury, Manchester, Portland, Holyoke, Brockton, Pawtucket, Newport, Bangor, Burlington.
Page 65 - In the New World we found the highest mountains lying north and south. In Asia and Europe they lie east and west. The highest mountains in the world are in Asia. On the slope east from them to the sea live one fifth of all the people in the world.
Page 143 - Mississippi, is only one third of the way from the equator to the north pole. This shows that the states are in the warm part of the north temperate zone.