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A Grammar School Geography: Descriptive, Industrial, and Commercial John Newell Tilden No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 203 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 203 - 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. The curve which bounds the circle is called the circumference Any portion of the circumference is called an arc.
Page 206 - The equator is taken as one of the lines ; a standard meridian as the other. Latitude is distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds. Places are in north or in south latitude according as they are north or south of the equator. Places on the equator have no latitude.
Page 204 - ... dilution. It would require, in fact, a mass of sea-sand millions of times greater than the whole mass of the Earth to reduce each particle of sand to a homoeopathic decillionth. Or, to state it otherwise, a decillion of particles of sea-sand would make a million of worlds or globes as large as the Earth. The diameter of the Earth is nearly 8000 miles: the diameter of the orbit of Neptune is nearly 6000 millions of miles; a vast difference. But even a world or sphere of sea-sand, with a diameter...
Page 210 - ... portion of water stretching up into the land is a gulf or bay. Below is a picture of a lake, and also of a gulf or bay. The lake is in the distance, at the foot of the mountain. Near by is a bay, with a light-house on the cape, to prevent the sailors from running their vessels ashore in the darkness. An isthmus is a narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land ; and the form of water that corresponds to an isthmus is a strait.
Page 187 - Peru, on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and on the east by the Argentine Republic.
Page 206 - The North Temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, and the South Temperate, between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle.
Page 30 - In the winter of 1889-1 890 an International Congress, composed of delegates from all the republics of the Western Continent, was held at Washington. This Congress directed special attention to the commerce between the United States and the countries to the south of us. As a general statement, it may be said that we have bought of these countries more than they have bought of us. In other words, our exports to them have paid for only a part of our imports from them. The balance of payment has been...
Page 74 - States would be increased to forty-eight; that our territory would be broadened so as to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south...
Page 27 - ... planting of the mechanic arts in this country became a necessity during the war of the revolution, and afterwards the spirit of American enterprise demanded that New England at least, with her barren soil, should improve the privileges she did possess, which were water power and skill. Of course most industries whose products were called for by the necessities of the war were greatly stimulated, but with peace came reaction, and the flooding of our markets with foreign goods. A new patriotism...