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Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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s the Cevennes.These mountains are mucholder and lower than the Alpsand contain the sources ofmany streams flowing west-ward to the Atlantic. The Jura mountains extendfrom the Rhine river southwestinto the valley of the Rhone.They consist chiefly of lowarches or folds, soyoung that theyhave not yet beengreatly worn. Seepicture on oppositepage. From lake Ge-neva the Rhoneriver follows awinding coursethrough the south-ern part of theJura ridges and fjthen unites withthe Saone, turningalmost due south. The mulberry treeupon whose leaves thesilkworm feeds is com-mon in southern Europe.The city of Lyon, atthe junction of theRhone and Saone rivers,has the largest silkmanufactories in theworld. The Rhone, like allother rivers flowing-into seas having onlyfaint currents, is mak-ing a delta. This riveris so rapid that onlysteamers can stem itscurrent above the delta plain, and thus reach Lyon. On the north of the Swiss plateau, many old and lowmountains extend far out into Germany. The surface
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of these mountains has been worn down to layers of rockthat were once deep in the earth. They are rich in ironlllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllll ore and other minerals. There are so many mines in these old moun-tains that the Germans speak of all mining asmountain work (JBergwerk\ On the east the Alpine highland reaches outto the Carpathian range through which the Dan-ube river has cut a gorge called the Iron Gate.See lesson 69. On the southeast the highlandsends out branch ranges into the Balkan penin-sula. These are mostly low, like the mountainsshown in the picture ofMarathon, on this page. 66. The SpanishPeninsula. The great penin-sula in southwestEurope is known asthe Spanish penin-sula.1 The loftyPyrenees mountainsextend across itsisthmus. This greatpeninsula is sharedby two countries, —Spain and Portugal. Among the moun-tains of southwestEurope, the Pyreneesare next in heightto the Alps andform a lofty barrierbetween France andSpain. Railroad lineshave been builtaround the end

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