Composition Book by Grades (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Model?Continued Sixth Week 1. Sagamore. 4. Bourne. 2. Sandwich. 5. Bournedale. 3. Buzzards Bay. 6. Pollock Kip. Cape Cod Canal; additional data: Width of bottom of approaches 200 to 300 feet Length of breakwater (400,000 cu. ft. granite). 3,000 feet Cost of construction $11,990,000 Craft rounding Cape per annum 25,000 Route from Boston to New York City: via Canal (sea route) 279 miles via Canal (sound route) 260 miles via Pollock Rip (sound route) 326 miles via Nantucket Light . . (sound route) 402 miles Composition Study In the first and third periods, treatment as heretofore. In the second period, pupils write an original composition on "The Cape Cod Canal," or on some similar piece of construction.Model: Description Seventh Week THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN From the last days of May to the end of July, in the northern part of Scandinavia, the sun shines day and night; and thus Sweden and Norway may be called the "Land of the Midnight Sun." During this period of continuous daylight the stars are never seen, and the moon appears pale and sheds no light upon the earth. Summer is short, just giving time enough for the wild-flowers to grow, to bloom, and to fade away. There is barely time for the husbandman to collect his harvest, which may at any time be nipped by a summer frost. A few weeks after the midnight sun has passed, the hours of sunshine shorten rapidly, and by the middle of August the air becomes chilly and the nights colder, although during the day the sun may be warm. Then the grass turns yellow; the leaves change their color, wither, and fall; the swallows and other migrating birds fly toward the south; twilight comes once more; the stars, one by one, make their appearance, shining brightly in the pale blue sky;...