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Title: The colonial era
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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600 700 800 THE COLONIAL ERA PART I. FROM THE DISCOVERT OF AMERICA TO THE ENG-LISH REVOLUTION OF 1688 CHAPTEE I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY The Pacific Coast—Tlie Atlantic Coast—The Appalachian Ranges— The Forests The Western continent differs from the Eastern inhaving a length from north to south far greater thanits width. The isthmus that forms the connecting linkof its two grand divisions reaches down almost to theequator. North America, stretching as it does from thePolar Sea to the region of perj)etual summer, includesall varieties of climate. It was on the eastern shore, andwithin the temperate latitudes, that the colonies wereplanted which were destined to develop into the thirteenoriginal States of the Federal Union. In America, in con-trast with Europe and Asia, the direction of the moun-tain ranges is from north to south. The complex moun-tain sjstem on the Pacific side of North America—thesvstem named the Cordilleras, the continuation of the I 2 TIIE^IOLONIAL ERA Andes—ex

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