Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
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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COMMERCE 119 107. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. No state nor country produces all the things which its people need, but each has a surplus of some products. Neither tea nor coffee grows in our country. Brazil, however,is able to send usm coffee S ~-*i \inl ^M~ 108. Highways of Trade, — Water Routes. The principal highways of trade are oceans, railroads, rivers and canals. Besides the transportation on these great highways, we have learned that camels bear loads of salt, ivory and oil across broad deserts; that reindeer drag sledges over the icy plains of northern Eurasia; that yaks toil up and down the Himalaya slopes; that llamas carry packs, or bundles of goods, over some parts of the Andes. These animals are of great service to man, for they can bear burdens in places where there
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each year, while China and Japan can supply us with tea. England cannot raise grain or beef enough for her own people, but the prairies of the United States and the steppes of Russia have wheat and cattle to spare. New England has skilled workmen and great mills for cloth-making. No cotton grows in that region, but enough is produced on the Southern plains to supply all the mills in our own country, and many in Great Britain besides. The buying and selling, or the exchange of goods, is called trade. Trade on a large scale may be called commerce. Domestic commerce is that carried on between various parts of one country. Foreign commerce is that carried on between one country and another. Which of the following are domestic trade and which are foreign? — Boston sells boots and shoes to the people of Texas. Brazil sends rubber to New York. Chicago sends beef to nearly all parts of our country and to Europe. France exports laces to the United States. Switzerland imports raw silk from Italy. Great

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