J. H. Colton's American School Geography: Comprising Separate Treatises on Astronomical, Physical, and Civil Geography : with Descriptions of the Several Grand Divisions and Countries of the GlobeIvison, Phinney & Company, 1863 - 588 sider |
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Side 41
... interior of the earth is believed to have shrunk away from the crust : which accordingly settled down upon it , at the more flexible points ; while at other points it retained its former position , or was upheaved somewhat by the ...
... interior of the earth is believed to have shrunk away from the crust : which accordingly settled down upon it , at the more flexible points ; while at other points it retained its former position , or was upheaved somewhat by the ...
Side 43
... interior of the globe , it is thought possible that some of them may have formed a part of its early crust . Yet others of this class , naturally penetrating or overspreading the stratified formations , are evidently the product of ...
... interior of the globe , it is thought possible that some of them may have formed a part of its early crust . Yet others of this class , naturally penetrating or overspreading the stratified formations , are evidently the product of ...
Side 80
... interior ; although it is greatest in mountainous regions , where the cold heights arrest and con- dense the clouds . 18. Winds bringing rain to one side of a mountain chain , being deprived of their moisture , often pass to the other ...
... interior ; although it is greatest in mountainous regions , where the cold heights arrest and con- dense the clouds . 18. Winds bringing rain to one side of a mountain chain , being deprived of their moisture , often pass to the other ...
Side 85
... interior of the continents . 7. The diversity of climate also is less upon islands ( since they are everywhere exposed to sea - breezes ) than upon the mainland ; and upon grand divisions deeply penetrated by seas and bays , than upon ...
... interior of the continents . 7. The diversity of climate also is less upon islands ( since they are everywhere exposed to sea - breezes ) than upon the mainland ; and upon grand divisions deeply penetrated by seas and bays , than upon ...
Side 88
... interior [ see explanations in paragraphs 5 and 6 ] . In illustration it may be observed that at St. Louis , on the Mississippi River , the winters are as cold as at Iluluk , in the Peninsula of Alaska ; the summers , as hot as at ...
... interior [ see explanations in paragraphs 5 and 6 ] . In illustration it may be observed that at St. Louis , on the Mississippi River , the winters are as cold as at Iluluk , in the Peninsula of Alaska ; the summers , as hot as at ...
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Africa Agriculture animals Arctic Arctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Baffin Bay Bolivia borders BOUND boundary Canada East Cape capital carnivora Caucasian Race chain character Chief Cities chief towns chiefly CIVIL GEOGRAPHY climate continents cotton crops desert earth east eastern elevation Europe exports extensive Farther India feet fertile fisheries flows foreign commerce globe grand divisions Gulf Gulf of Mexico hemisphere highlands Hindoostan Hudson Bay important Indian inhabitants inland trade interior lakes land large town largest latitude latter lowlands manufactures Mexico miles Mining Mississippi Mountain System Name the chief nearly North America northeast northern northwest numerous ocean Pacific paleozoic peaks peninsula PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY plains Plateau population and characteristics port portion QUESTIONS ON MAP railroad rain range regions rocks Russia SECTION slope soil southeast southeastern southern southwest species strait surface table-lands temperature tion traversed tributary tropical United valleys vegetation volcanoes western coast winds zones
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Side 3 - A Circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Side 546 - Some parts of the chain are considerably above the enow-line, and the highest summits may reach 15,000 feet. 5. The region bordering on the Red Sea, consisting of Abyssinia, Nubia, and Egypt. Abyssinia, we have seen, is the mountainous termination of the great southern plateau. Between this and the Mediterranean extends the low valley of the Nile, separated from the Red Sea on the east by a rugged mountainous region, and from the Libyan Desert on the west by a low ridge of limestone and sandstone....
Side 4 - R (fig. 4.) ab and cd and ef (fig. 5,) are three parallel lines ; and gh and ik (fig. 6,) are two parallel semicircles. A Globe or Sphere is a round body, every part of whose surface is equally distant from a point within, called its centre. A Spheroid is a figure nearly spherical, either oblong or oblate. The earth is a spheroid, having its axis or diameter at the poles shorter than at the equator. A Great Circle, ABDE, of a sphere, is one whose plane passes through its centre C.
Side 546 - Algeria, and Tunis. The northern slope towards the Mediterranean, called the .Tell, is, in aspect, climate, and productions, similar to the opposite coast of Europe ; the southern side merges gradually into the Sahara. Some parts of the chain are considerably above the snow-line, and the highest summits may reach 15,000 feet 5.
Side 198 - The legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state, chosen by their Legislatures for 6 years.
Side 358 - America, we find the same lamentable spectacle ; the people of the elevated table lands of Mexico and Peru, are the only exception to this picture, and this exception goes far to establish the influence of the vegetative and humid nature of the lower plains of America.
Side 152 - Hampshire, on the cast by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and on the west by New York.
Side 123 - They visit a man in his grave directly after he has been buried, and examine him concerning his faith. If he acknowledge that there is but one God and that Mohammed is his prophet...
Side 546 - Mediterranean, which extend further into the continent here than elsewhere. The portion of the Desert lying east of the route above described is called the Libyan Desert. It] is chiefly in this region that the oases are susceptible of cultivation ; the tracts of vegetation in the western portion are fit for little else than pasture, mainly for goats and sheep. The principal production of the more fertile oases is dates; but other fruits and grain are also cultivated.