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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
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partly also the work ofcoral polyps. Tiny creatures of thiskind, in countless numbers, are stillvery active in building the southernportion of the peninsula farther outinto the warm Gulf stream. Southeast of Florida lie the lowBahama islands.1 These consistmainly of huge banks of shell andcoral limestone. Only small partsof the great banks rise above the sea. The islands of the West Indies are mostly the upper portions of mountainous country that has been partly drowned. The flooded valleys in this region form many large and deep harbors. The city of Havana, on one of these drowned valleys, is the chief port of Cuba and the largest seaport in the West Indies. Many of the small islands of the West Indies stretching in a chain to the northern coast of South America are almost wholly volcanic. These are known as the Lesser Antilles. 1 Neither the Bahamas nor the West Indies are parts of the coastalplain, but owing to their position they may be briefly studied here. Qsi i \ G^O\5L^ ^ CK^
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SOUTH AMEEICA. -V—•• 43. South America.1 South America is not so large as North America. Boththese continents have the same general outline, narrowingtowards the south. The two lands resemble each other in their relief orsurface forms. Each has a long western highland andalso a great central plain, with lower eastern highlands. The isthmus of Panama joins the two parts of America.Along this neck of land, the primary highland consistsof a hilly ridge. Passes among the hills are only aboutthree hundred feet above sea level. 1 The Map Studies on page 55 are to precede this lesson,to the relief maps. Locate every place named in the text. Refer often This isthmus is onlyabout thirty miles, and a man can walkacross it in a day. A rail-road crosses from shore to shore. An attempthas been made to dig a ship canal through theisthmus, but it has thus far failed. Can you tell why this neck of land was chosen as thesite of a canal ? Why is a canal needed ? What large sea is north of

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