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... miles distant from the places where homes must be built . For building houses in cities , bricks are perhaps used more than any other kind of material . Bricks are molded out of clay , and baked in ovens until they are hard . These ...
... miles distant from the places where homes must be built . For building houses in cities , bricks are perhaps used more than any other kind of material . Bricks are molded out of clay , and baked in ovens until they are hard . These ...
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... miles without seeing any green thing . The loose , dry sand is caught up by the wind , and piled into great banks . There are hills and moun- tains in some deserts , and in places , the ground is covered with rocks and stones . The ...
... miles without seeing any green thing . The loose , dry sand is caught up by the wind , and piled into great banks . There are hills and moun- tains in some deserts , and in places , the ground is covered with rocks and stones . The ...
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... miles from east to west and 1,500 miles from north to south . A part of it is prairie land , having fine black soil and few trees . Before the prairies were settled , they were covered with tall grass , higher than a man's head , which ...
... miles from east to west and 1,500 miles from north to south . A part of it is prairie land , having fine black soil and few trees . Before the prairies were settled , they were covered with tall grass , higher than a man's head , which ...
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... mile or more from the school , so that the children take their lunch with them and do not return home until the end ... MILES FIGURE 67. The " Four Corners . " A good place for a village to grow up . blacksmith shop had been built there ...
... mile or more from the school , so that the children take their lunch with them and do not return home until the end ... MILES FIGURE 67. The " Four Corners . " A good place for a village to grow up . blacksmith shop had been built there ...
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... miles away . The merchant orders goods from London or Paris by a cablegram , and thus saves a week in getting them . By means of the wireless telegraph , communication may be had with vessels hundreds of miles out on the ocean . A ...
... miles away . The merchant orders goods from London or Paris by a cablegram , and thus saves a week in getting them . By means of the wireless telegraph , communication may be had with vessels hundreds of miles out on the ocean . A ...
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Africa Alaska animals Arctic Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean Argentina Asia Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria-Hungary Brazil British building built called Canada Canal capital carried cattle Central chief city climate clothing coal cold colonies continent corn cotton crops earth east eastern Empire Eurasia Europe exports factories farming FIGURE fish forests fruits Geography German Empire globe grain Gulf hills Indians industries iron islands Isthmus of Panama Lake land largest leading live Longitude lumber manufacturing Mexico minerals mines Mississippi moun mountains Name nearly North northern ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean Panama plants plateau Pole population race railroads rain regions River rock Russia salt sheep ships slopes soil South America southern Spain Square Miles Strait streams SUPPLEMENTARY READING surface tains trade trees TROPIC OF CANCER Tropic of Capricorn tropical United valleys western wheat York Zone
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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.