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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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ve great galleriesof painting and sculpture.~>burg, on the tide waterle, is the leading portainland of Europe.Xe DToducts andFrance re- Havre, at the mouth of the Seine, is the port of Paris.Steamers from Havre reach nearly all great seaports.Among the French exports to our country are silks,woolens and millinery goods. The United States sendsabout the same kinds of goods to Havre as to Hamburg. Among the articles sent from Paris to New York are leathergoods, feathers, buttons, fans and jewelry. Lyon, the center of the silk manufactures, is notfar from the coal region of the Cevennes, nor fromthe silkworm district of southern France. Marseille is the largest port of this country. A canal from the Ehone river tothis city makes it the chiefport of the. Rhone valley. The Garonne basin producesgreat quantities of grapes.Toulouse is in the vineyarddistrict. This city and Bor-deaux are famous for red wines.Lisle is in the flax-growingregion of northern France,and is near coal mines. This
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Constantinople, on the Bosphoius. nany, but the former country extends t where the mulberry tree thrives. ^e third largest city in the world. 3 river, and is noted for its art $s. This city is the railroad city has large mills for themanufacture of linen clothand thread. ^Belgium. Belgium hasValuable coal mines, and isin the flax district. Lacesand linen are importantmanufactures in this co>un-try. Sugar beets are a lead-ing crop in Belgium. Here are also beds of excellentsand for glass-making. The most valuable exports fromthis country to the United States are beet sugar, glass-ware, cloth and firearms. Antwerp, the chief port, is the center of the railroad andcanal systems which reach nearly aP. parts of Belgium. OaAUi /*■> *>-*. MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES, — tTHER COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. 171 Brussels is noted for carpets and laces. Liege is wellknown for its firearms. The Netherlands or Holland. The people of thiscountry are largely engaged in dairying and in raisingcereals.

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