A Grammar of Geography by J Goldsmith Author:Richard Phillips General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 141 AMERICA. 346. This vast tract (called also the New Continent, to distinguish it from the Old Continent, containing Europe, Asia, and Africa) extends nearly half the circumference of the globe, from 75 north to 55 south latitude, a distance exceeding 9000 miles ; and where widest, stretches 4000 miles from east to west; is four times as large as Europe, about one-third larger than Africa, one-fourth less than Asia; and contains about three-tenths of the dry land on the surface of the globe. It is divided into two parts, nearly but not exactly equal, North America and South America, the former exceeding the latter by about one-ninth. NORTH AMERICA. 347. Boundaries. -- Including Greenland and Central America, North America is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean ; on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean; and on the east by the Isthmus of Panama, the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. 348. Extent And Population. -- Extent, upwards of 8,700,000 square miles; population, about fifty-one millions. 349. Inlets And Straits. -- In the north-east, Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay, west of Greenland ; Hudson Bay or Sea, with James Bay in the south, Fox Channel in the north, and Hudson Strait in the north-east: in the east, Gulf ofSt. Lawrence, with Belle Isle Strait; Fundy Bay, west of Nova Scotia; New York, Delaware, arid Chesapeake Bays, east of the United States : between North and South America, the Gulf of Mexico, with Campeachy Bay and Straits of Florida, and the Caribbean Sea, with the Gulfs of Honduras, Mosquito, and Darien : on the west coast, Bay of Panama, south of Pan...« less