 | Education - 1873 - 698 pages
...formation . Scanning the surface of our continent we find a depression extending from the Arctic Ocean on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and bounded east by the Appalachian chain, and west by the Rocky Mountains. So slight and gradual are the... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1873 - 464 pages
...Appalachians on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west, extending from the vast system of lakes on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and including the area drained by the Missouri on the one side and the Ohio on the opposite. The term "Cordilleras... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1874 - 502 pages
...towns are Nain and Hebron. THE UNITED STATES. The United States extend from the British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west. They originally consisted of 13 States,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1874 - 1332 pages
...Western States and all the Territories east of Arizona, California, and Idaho, from British. America on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and embraces within its limits ninety-nine Indian tribes, numbering about l!)li,000 persons, scattered... | |
 | 1876 - 432 pages
...bravely did they set themselves to perform it ! They viewed the whole country, from the St. Lawrence on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Atlantic on the east, to the unexplored west, as the field of their labor. Messrs. Gibson and McLeod... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1877 - 418 pages
...LOUISIANA. Area in sq. miles, 41,846. Population, 726,915. Inhabitants to a sq. mile, 18. Parishes, 57. Geographical Position, etc.—Louisiana extends from...Sabine. Its extreme length from east to west is about 800 miles, and its breadth about 250. Surface, etc.—This state has no mountains; no part of the surface... | |
 | Sophia S. Cornell - Geography - 1878 - 124 pages
...LOUISIANA. Area In square miles, 41,346. Population, 720,915. Ge«graphlcal Position. — Louisiana extends from Arkansas on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south; and from Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, to the waters of the Sabine, which separate it from Texas. Surface. — There... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Beneficial insects - 1880 - 822 pages
...advantages as a sugar producing plant. It adapts itself to our soil and climate from the British Possessions on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. Its chief rivals are the sugar beet and the true sugar cane of... | |
 | Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences - Natural history - 1882 - 502 pages
...constant warfare against its neighbors. 2. They occupied the whole country, from Lake Superior, at least, on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Alleghanies, at least, on the east, to the Sierras on the west. 3. They were an agricultural people,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Geography - 1884 - 510 pages
...INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY, THE UNITED STATES. The United States extend from the British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west They originally consisted of 13 States,... | |
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British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west. 
