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Title: A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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les, in the eastern Pacific, which wereacquired through the treaty with Spain ratified by Con-gress in February, 1899. At present the United Stateshas an area of about 3,725,000 square miles, more thanfour times its original area. This area is about equal to that of all Europe, and morethan half that of South America. There are twenty-fourof our States each of which is larger than England. Natural Conditions of Progress.—This vast area, inhab-ited by more than eighty million people gathered from allthe civilized and many of the uncivilized nations of theearth, has unequalled natural advantages. Its soil is capa-ble of supplying abundant food for a much larger popula-tion, while its mines of varied products and its immenseforests are rich reservoirs of w^ealth. No other territory of equal extent is more abundantlysupplied by nature with navigable w^aters, including the Mis-sissippi and its affluents in the vast interior and the Great Longitude West 66°30 Z. ,fr . N .^^? V
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