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Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 4. A cotton field in the picking season . FIGURE 5. A flock of sheep in the State of. dens and orchards furnish us vegetables and fruits . Farmers raise wheat , corn , rye , and FIGURE 3. Bottling milk for ...
Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 4. A cotton field in the picking season . FIGURE 5. A flock of sheep in the State of. dens and orchards furnish us vegetables and fruits . Farmers raise wheat , corn , rye , and FIGURE 3. Bottling milk for ...
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Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 5. A flock of sheep in the State of Washington . FIGURE 9. Giant icebergs float down from the Arctic regions. All these materials are composed of slender threads , or fibers , which must be twisted into thread and ...
Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 5. A flock of sheep in the State of Washington . FIGURE 9. Giant icebergs float down from the Arctic regions. All these materials are composed of slender threads , or fibers , which must be twisted into thread and ...
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... FIGURE 6. A clearing in a pine forest and log home of a pioneer . boats and railroads , building materials are often brought from distant places . Lumber comes from the forests which are found in many parts of our country . Granite ...
... FIGURE 6. A clearing in a pine forest and log home of a pioneer . boats and railroads , building materials are often brought from distant places . Lumber comes from the forests which are found in many parts of our country . Granite ...
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Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 9. Giant icebergs float down from the Arctic regions . Compare in size with the ocean steamship . FIGURE 17. A group of Pygmy warriors armed with bow. Animals are Abundant . While there are few plants because of ...
Harmon Bay Niver. FIGURE 9. Giant icebergs float down from the Arctic regions . Compare in size with the ocean steamship . FIGURE 17. A group of Pygmy warriors armed with bow. Animals are Abundant . While there are few plants because of ...
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... FIGURE 12. Eskimos building an igloo . give out much heat ; but the Eskimos do not seem to mind the smoke , and they are so accustomed to cold that they can sleep very comfortably in a bank of snow when the weather is not too cold . As ...
... FIGURE 12. Eskimos building an igloo . give out much heat ; but the Eskimos do not seem to mind the smoke , and they are so accustomed to cold that they can sleep very comfortably in a bank of snow when the weather is not too cold . As ...
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Page 71 - Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Page 260 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 76 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 90 - A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water is called a strait.
Page 101 - They crossed the Rocky Mountains and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, thus gaining a foothold in the extreme Northwest.
Page 274 - Compare the cotton crop of the United States with that of the rest of the world.
Page 212 - Germany vast amounts of it are found a few feet below the surface of the ground in the northern part of the country.
Page 36 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 61 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.