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abundant agricultural Alaska American amount Appalachian Appalachian Mountains Appalachian valley Arizona Arkansas army Bering Sea branches bushels California cañon Carolina carried Cascade Range census cent Chilkat Pass coal colonies Colorado cotton Dakota deposits east eastern election element England entire exports extending farms feet foreign foreign-born glacier gold gorge Government half height Illinois immigration importance increased Indian inhabitants Island known Lake Lake Superior land less long tons Louisiana mainly manufactures Massachusetts Mexico million mining Minnesota Mississippi Valley Missouri mountains nation native whites navigable nearly negroes Nevada North Carolina northern Ohio Pennsylvania plains plateau population principal proportion railroads rainfall range region River Sawatch Range settlement short tons side Sierra Nevada South Dakota south-eastern southern southward square miles streams summit Tennessee territory Texas tion tons towns tribes United vessels Virginia Washington western westward York Yukon
Popular passages
Page 423 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Page 423 - North latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of West longitude (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the North along the Channel called Portland Channel, as far as the Point of the Continent where it strikes the...
Page 424 - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Page 75 - Then clouds arrange in strata across the canyon, with intervening vista views to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children of the heavens, and when they play among the rocks they lift them to the region above.
Page 76 - There is a descent of perhaps 75 or 80 feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam. We can land just above, but there is no foothold on either side by which we can make a portage. It is nearly a thousand feet to the top of the granite...
Page 76 - One might imagine that this was intended for the library of the gods; and it was. The shelves are not for books, but form the stony leaves of one great book. He who would read the language of the universe may dig out letters here and 25 COL there, and with them spell the words, and read, in a slow and imperfect way, but still so as to understand a little, the story of creation.
Page 71 - Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canyon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles.
Page 72 - ... for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. If its sublimity consisted only in its dimensions, it could be sufficiently set forth, in a single sentence. It is more than 200 miles long, from 5 to 12 miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep.
Page 75 - ... overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river bright with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind sweeps down a side gulch, and, making a rift in the clouds, reveals the blue heavens, and a stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds drift away into...
Page 150 - Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Montana Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Nevada Idaho Washington Oregon California ERRATA Throughout this book for " Cape Colony " read " Cape of Good Hope " ; for " Orange River Colony " read " Orange Free State Province"; and for "Congo Free State