Three Industrial Nations: An Industrial Geography of England, Germany, and the United States |
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Africa agricultural American animals Asia Atlantic Australia Austria-Hungary beet Britain British Canada carried cars cattle century chief cities climate cloth coal coast colonies commerce continent corn cotton crops developed East electric England English Europe exports factories farm fish flour foreign forests France fruits GERMAN EMPIRE Germany gold greatest harbors important increased India iron and steel islands labor Lake land largest leading Liverpool machinery Magellan Strait Manchester Manchester Ship Canal manufacturing meat minerals mines Mountains navies of Egypt North North Sea northern ocean Ohio Pacific Panama Canal plants port Questions and Exercises railroads railways raised refrigerator cars region Rhine rivers SCALE OF MILES sheep ships soil South South America southern steamers steamship streams Suez Canal sugar sugar beets supply textile thousands THREE INDUSTRIAL NATIONS tion To-day trade transportation United Kingdom waterways West wheat wool woolen yield York
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Page 217 - ... thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village. Hardly from his buried wigwam Could the hunter force a passage ; With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly...
Page 217 - O THE long and dreary Winter ! O the cold and cruel Winter ! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village. Hardly from his buried wigwam Could the hunter force a passage ; With his mittens and his snow-shoes Vainly walked he through the forest, Sought for bird or beast and found none, Saw no track of deer or rabbit, In the snow beheld no footprints,...
Page 351 - New York, NY Chicago, 111. Philadelphia, Pa. St. Louis, Mo. Boston, Mass. Cleveland, Ohio Baltimore, Md. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Page 351 - Chicago, 111. . . Philadelphia, Pa. . St. Louis, Mo. . Boston, Mass. Cleveland, Ohio Baltimore, Md. . . Pittsburgh, Pa. . . Detroit, 'Mich. . . Buffalo, NY . . San Francisco, Cal. Milwaukee, Wis. . Cincinnati, Ohio Newark, NJ . New Orleans, La. . Washington, DC Los Angeles, Cal. . Minneapolis, Minn. Jersey City, NJ . Kansas City, Mo. . Seattle, Wash. . . Indianapolis, Ind. . Providence, RI . Louisville, Ky. . . Rochester, NY . St.
Page 210 - England, including all of the upper part of Maine, the White mountains of New Hampshire, the Green mountains of Vermont, and the Adirondacks of New York...
Page 95 - С 6. Yukon 1, NWT 1 Total 104 The House of Commons The members of the House of Commons are elected by the people The ordinary legal limit of duration for each...
Page 160 - State must gain in intellectual power what she has lost in material power, and to this end I desire that everything be done to extend and perfect the education of the people." Overwhelming defeat and bitter military adversity had forced the conviction that the mind of a nation was worth more than its soil. Germany has since accomplished so much by increased educational means that the relative position is more evenly...
Page 351 - Worcester, Mass. Syracuse, NY New Haven, Conn. Birmingham, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Scranton, Pa. Richmond, Va. Paterson, NJ Omaha, Nebr. Fall River, Mass. Dayton, Ohio Grand Rapids, Mich. Nashville, Tenn. Lowell, Mass. Cambridge, Mass. Spokane, Wash. Bridgeport, Conn. Albany, NY Hartford, Conn. Trenton, NJ New Bedford, Mass.
Page 345 - There are more multimillionaires in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined, even if we include the quasi-governmental wealth of the princes of India and the East.
Page 172 - ... to exist in them will be given below, as well as lists of their peculiar species. It must be distinctly understood, however, that future researches, especially at the South and Southwest, may greatly modify the views here presented. I. — The Pacific Province* comprises a narrow strip between the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains on the east and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its southern limit is San Diego, from whence it extends northerly into Alaska. Over...