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Title: History of the American Civil War
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Draper, John William, 1811-1882
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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, but analogous or parallel community,will be to us prophetic. Hereafter it will be one of the most interesting andvaluable studies of the American statesman to determinein the Old World the counterparts of proposed geo-graphical localities in the New. His expectations willbe guided by their history, and in this manner will his-tory most truly discharge its proper function, and be phi-losophy teaching by example. Some general resemblances have been traced by writerson meteorology between certain localities in Local resemblances -»T ■ i * • i < i • ,1 /-\-in tit t t in the New and old JN ortn America and others m the Old World. World. ... Thus the Atlantic region in many importantrespects corresponds to China, the Gulf of California tothe Red Sea, Sonora to Persia, the Great Basin to thebasin of the Caspian, the Sandy Desert to Arabia, NewMexico to Palestine, British America on the north to theplains of Siberia and European Russia, the Prairie regionto Moldavia and Wallachia.
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Chap. VI.) ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SOUTHERN STATES. H$ On the other hand, there are very important differencesbetween the west coast of America and the west coast ofEurope. The Gulf Stream, crossing the Atlantic, carrieswith it the heat of the torrid zone, raising the tempera-Nture and giving humidity to all Western Europe. Butoff the California coast is a great body of cold water,which keeps the temperature down. On the Pacific,therefore, Norway, England, and Spain are representedon a narrow strip, but there is nothing that answers toFrance. It is not, however, from such general resemblances thata basis is to be obtained; for political reasoning, we mustfollow the surer guide of isothermal zones. Imperfect asour knowledge of them is, it nevertheless will yield usvery valuable indications. Let it be proposed, for example, to inquire what willbe the probable character of a European populationplaced on the Atlantic border, and destined to developitself westwardly along a special climate-z

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