Huntington's Introduction to Modern Geography: For Beginners and Common Schools, Preparatory to the Use of His and Other Larger Works Upon the Subject : Illustrated by a Variety of Cuts and Accompanied by a New and Corresponding Atlas, Drawn and Engraved on Steel Expressly for this Work |
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Page 14 - It is bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island, on the south by Long Island Sound, and on the west by New York.
Page 8 - The AXIS of the earth is an imaginary line passing through its centre from north to south. The...
Page 118 - The native chicory furnishes an excellent and healthy substitute for coffee, and the yaupan for tea, while salt is every where cheap and abundant. No country in North America holds out such inducements to emigrants as Texas, both for the salubrity of its climate, the fertility of its soil, and the variety of its products.
Page 67 - It is hounded north by New Britain, and east by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the coast of Labrador, south by the United States, and west by Upper Canada, from which it is chiefly separated by the rite* Ottawas.
Page 32 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are parties.
Page 10 - The north temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the arctic circle ; and the south temperate zone between the tropic of Capricorn and the antarctic circle.
Page 10 - The latitude of a place is its distance from the equator, and it is either north or south latitude, and is reckoned in degrees.
Page 33 - The members of the house of representatives are chosen by the people, in districts containing a certain number of inhabitants ; and they hold the office for two years.
Page 13 - Harbor, &c. Are the-re any Harbors in the middle of the ocean ? Why not ? What would you call a small Bay, where ships can lie in safety during storms and tempests ? Q. What is a Road ? A. It is a place where ships may lie at anchor, at some distance from the shore ; as Hampton Roads at the mouth of James River in Virginia. Are our roads here, the same as those Roads where ships lie at anchor ? Why not ? Can you explain to me the difference ? Q. What is a Canal ? A. It is an artificial channel filled...
Page 11 - Peninsula is a portion of land surrounded with water, save one narrow neck which joins it to the continent, as the Morea. An Isthmus is a narrow neck of land joining a peninsula to the adjacent land, by which the people may pass from one to the other, as the isthmus of Darien. A Promontory is a high part of land stretching itself into the sea, the extremity of which is called a Cape or Headland. A Mountain is a rising...