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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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The Acropolis, Athens. LOW EUROPE — WESTERN PART. 85 Northward from the middle Pyrenees stretches a gently-slopingalluvial fan built of waste from the mountains. The length of thisfan, from the mouth of the mountain valleys to its outer edge, isabout fifty miles. The people in the Landes are mostly shepherds. Some of thesego about on longstilts, but thecustom is dyingout. The easternpart of the Girondebasin has manylarge vine-yards.
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windmills and cattle. One portion of these flat plainsis known as Holland, or the Netherlands, — meaninglowerlands. On the southwest is Belgium. The Rhine river, above its delta plain, has cut a deepvalley through a broad rolling upland.Many of the Rhine branches also have worn valleys inthis upland. The Rhine is nav-igable to the borderof the Swiss plateau.A channel has beencut for this river, inits middle course,so as to give a moredirect route thanthrough its oldwindings. TheRhine has formedflood plains onwhich many largecities have beenbuilt. The valley-sides, sloping downto the flood plains, Northward from the Gironde river the central part of France is rolling and hilly. Very low plains lie along the southern shore of theNorth sea. Part of this lowland is a young coastal plain,and part is the delta plain of the Rhine river. In someplaces, the land surface has sunk below the level of thesea, and dykes have been built to keep out the salt water.Portions of the plain have been re

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  • bookleafnumber:86
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