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... poles driven into the sand . The poles in the center are longer than the rest , so that the tent slopes to the ground , where the edges are fastened to pegs driven into the earth . It contains no furniture , but there are always thick ...
... poles driven into the sand . The poles in the center are longer than the rest , so that the tent slopes to the ground , where the edges are fastened to pegs driven into the earth . It contains no furniture , but there are always thick ...
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... pole or building will show the direction of the wind . Weather - vanes generally have marked upon them : N , S , E , and W , so placed as to indicate the North , the South , the East , and the West ; an arrow or a pointer above the ...
... pole or building will show the direction of the wind . Weather - vanes generally have marked upon them : N , S , E , and W , so placed as to indicate the North , the South , the East , and the West ; an arrow or a pointer above the ...
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... Pole SOUTH Pole 50 40 30 NW 09 02 N 30 40 50 50 60 70 80 NE one a few times across the end of a magnet ; then thrust each needle through a small piece of cork and float the pieces in a pan of water . The needles will turn slowly about ...
... Pole SOUTH Pole 50 40 30 NW 09 02 N 30 40 50 50 60 70 80 NE one a few times across the end of a magnet ; then thrust each needle through a small piece of cork and float the pieces in a pan of water . The needles will turn slowly about ...
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... POLE STAR SIOPEIA FIGURE 93. Some of the constellations near the North Star . Moons . All the planets except Mercury and Venus have bodies revolving around them called moons . We shall soon read about our own moon and the changes in its ...
... POLE STAR SIOPEIA FIGURE 93. Some of the constellations near the North Star . Moons . All the planets except Mercury and Venus have bodies revolving around them called moons . We shall soon read about our own moon and the changes in its ...
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... Pole . The oppo- site end of the axis is called the South Pole . We are now able to understand exactly NORTH POLE AXIS the meaning of north and south on. 80 THE EARTH.
... Pole . The oppo- site end of the axis is called the South Pole . We are now able to understand exactly NORTH POLE AXIS the meaning of north and south on. 80 THE EARTH.
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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.