An Introduction To Geography (Hardcover)

An Introduction to Geography- SIMPLE LESSONS ON GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS AND ELEMENTARY NOTIONS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Originally published in 1901. CONTENTS Lesson Page 1. Sun and Shadow ... 5 2. Direction The Four Ctir clinai Points 7 3. When the Sun is in the South .... 12 4. The North Pole Star - - 14 5. A Wonderful Discovery The Magnetic Needle - - 17 6. The Gilded Needlea Fable 20 7. The Use of a Map - - 23 8. Rivers What they arc - 29 9. What Makes the Rivers - 31 10. How Rivers are Made Springs 33 11. Watershed ... 36 12. Tributaries and River Basins 38 13. An Old, Old Ocean and a Tiny River - - - 41 14. On the Thames - - - 44 15. On the Thames Ebb and Flow 48 10. On the Thames Estuary - 50 17. Mud-banks Sand-banks - 52 18. Sand-bars - - - - 55 19. Deltas I .... 59 20. Deltas II - 62 21. Uses of Rivers I - - 66 22. Uses of Rivers II - - 69 23. Some Famous Rivers - - 71 24. Mountains and Hills - - 74 25. Some Mountains in Great Britain - - - - 76 26. Great Mountains - - - 79 27. Valleys .... 84 28. Glaciers .... 87 29. Caves 89 30. Climbing the Alps - - 92 Lesson . Page 31. Uses of Mountains - - 95 32. VolcanoesI - 98 33. Volcanoes II - - - 103 34. Earthquakes - - - 108 35. Geysers - - - - 110 36. Lakes I .... 113 37. Lakes II - - - - 118 38. Waterfalls - ... 120 39. Plains and Plateaux - - 123 40. Great Plains - - - W 41. The Sahara - - - - 130 42. Map of England Towns Village, Hamlet - - 133 43. Inland Towns-A University Town and, a Manufacturing Town - - - - 137 44. London A City, a Seaport, a Worlds Market - - 140 45. Seaports, or Coast Towns, and Harbours - - - 142 46. The Work of the Waves - 147 47. Islands - - - - 149 48. Coral Islands - - - 151 49. Peninsulas - - - - 154 50.Isthmuses - - - - 160 51. Capes 162 52. Bays - - - - 166 53. Gulfs 169 54. Channels, Estuaries, Mouths, Firths, Loch, c. - - 171 55. Straits 174 56. Continents and Oceans - 177 57. The Continents Europe - 181 58. The Continents Asia - - 184 59. The Continents Africa - 188 IV CONTENTS Lesson Page 60, The Continents Australia - 192 61, The Continents North America - - - - 196 62. The Continents South America .... 200 63. The Oceans - The Atlantic 203 Lesson iage 64. The Oceans The Pac c and Indian Oceans - - - 206 65. The Oceans The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans - - - 209 66...