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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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Hemispheres North America British America United States 58, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and RhodeIsland New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, andWest Virginia North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin,and Minnesota Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, California. Oregon. Nevada, Colorado, Wash-ington. lclah\ Jlontano, Dakota, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyo-ming and Indian Territory 1 Comparative Sizes 77 50 I Mexico and West Indies 78 52 I South America 80 56 British Isles 84 59 Europe 86 1 Central and Southern Europe 88 60 Asia 92 ! Africa 96 62 lOceanica • 100 gi Comparative Sizes and Comparative Latitudes 102 Index and General Review of Physical Geography 103 66 Astronomical Georgaphy 108 1 General Review of Local Geography HO Pronunciation and Meaning of Geographical Names Ill, 112 68 I Tables 118-115
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■m^^ NTRODUCTORY. 1. Tlie robin builds her uest iu the tree for thePurpose of there (lej)ositing her eggs, and of bring-ing forth iind protecting her joung. 2. For the Iltrpose of protection and comfortmen buikl houses, found cities, and cstabhsh gov-ernments, riirposc, therefore, leads to Designand Artioii. 3. When you look at a beautiful house, and ob-serve the peculiar fitness of the various parts toeach other, you aie certain that it was made forthe security and enjoyment of the family within ;and that the workmen shaped and placed thematerials under the direction of an intelligentarchitect, who Formed the Ilau before the WorUwas coinnienced. 4. So, when you look abroad, you see a beauti-ful world, which was made for the enjoyment andbenefit of the whole human family. 5. Man coidd not exist ivithoiit Food ; thereforethe earth yields her manifoldx)roductions of grain,fruit, and vegetables, while animals, birds, andfish, also, are given for his nourishment and use.Xeitlicr could h

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