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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
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any people in Cuba as in thecity of Chicago. Two thirds of the population of theisland are of Spanish descent, but there are many Negroes.Havana, the capital and chief seaport, is one of the great-est sugar markets in the world. There are nearly as many people in the island of Haitias in Cuba. The western half of the island of Haiti issettled chiefly by Negroes; the eastern half has a mixedpopulation of Negroes and people of Spanish descent.The latter outnumber the former. Port au Prince andSanto Domingo are the principal cities of the island. Jamaica and the Bahama islands are peopled largely byNegroes, but there are also many British settlers. Kingstonand Nassau are the commercial centers of these islands. Barbados is a very thickly-settled island belonging tothe British nation. This nation possesses most of theLeeward and the WindAvard islands. France controls afew of them. The Bermuda islands, lying far out in the Atlantic ocean(see maps on pages 25 and 163) belong to the British.
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170 COUNTRIES OF LOW EUROPE, — WESTERN PART. glass. The Rhine and other river valleys of this countryare famous for their wine grapes. Large areas are plantedwith sugar beets and with cereals. This country imports cotton from the United States; wool andflax from Russia and Hungary ; raw silk from Italy. The principal manu-factures of Germanyare cloth, iron articles,beet sugar, glass andporcelain. Large quan-tities of these articlesare sent to the UnitedStates. Besides cotton,our country sendsgrain, meat, petro-leum and tobacco toGermany, — largelythrough the port ofHamburg. Germanyranks second among >1Icommercial countries Berlin, the capital, is thethird city in size in Europe.This city is a great tradecenter, and is the seat of afamous university. Leipzig has a large univer-sity, and is noted for book-pubiishing. Munich andDresden have great galleriesof painting and sculpture.~>burg, on the tide waterle, is the leading portainland of Europe.Xe DToducts andFrance re- Havre,

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