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Title: Monteith's physical and political geography; in two parts. Part I. Geography taught as a science ... Part II. Local and civil geography ..
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Monteith, James
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) : A.S. Barnes and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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isions. The unit of measure is sis hundredmiles. It.wilihe seen that a fundamental prin-ciple in this system of map drawing is,that maps ehouhl he drawn in a singleunit of measure. The great advantagesof this will be at once apparent to teach-ers. Comparative size is fixed in themind, and the lengths and b eadths of theStates and Continents easily learned.Pages are made to suit the maps, and notthe maps to suit the pages. But it may be convenient to enlargeEurope, and contract Asia and Africa. Aunit t)f measure can easily be taken longeror shorter than the one here given, andthe same method pursued as here indi-cated. Thus a map can be bhown ae largeor Bmall as may be desired. The continental nnit assumed in thisbook is convenient for u&e at the desk. ,/// pttpHs shouUJ hiivf the sauteunit <»/ iiirasHre. The maps can then be easily corrected,and in a short time the comparative sizesof the States and Continents will belearned. SCALE FOR DRAWING ALL OFTHE CONTINENTS.600 m. 600 m
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n n n 2 ms L I I HIT i I I O O O O 2=2 QUESTIONS. Many qnestiona will suggest them-selves to the teacher. Among tliem wewould suggest the following: What is the extreme length of SouthAmerica compared witli North America ?How does the extreme l)readth of theTiiiled States compare with the lireadthof EuroiK ? What is the extreme lengthof the Gulf of Mexico/ Its hreadth?How far i< it from Yucatan to ApijalachecBay? What is the length of Ciiha? Itsbreadth ? How far is Newfoundland fromHayti? How far is Hayti from SouthAmerica f How far is Hayti from Green-land ? What is the di-tanee from CapeCatoche to Cape Sable f From Cape Sa-ble to the Straits of Belleisle? How farIs Queen Charlottes Island north of SanFrancisco Bay ? Commcnre at A, and measure 5\ ms. north, ar.d mark Cfi/te Sf. liof/iir.Measure to C, 71 ms. ; thence west to D, ol n s. At 4 ms. from C, mark Ciijic0<i/liiian and L(i/,e M<irar(n/bo. From aj, at Ctipe Sf. lioquc, toward4 on tlie line C D, mark the points, 1, nea

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