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The Geography of America and the West Indies
The Geography of America and the West Indies Author:George Long 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: GENERAL VIEW OF NORTH AMERICA. 1. Situation, Extent, Area, and Population. 1. Natural Divisions. 3. Chippewyan, or Rocky Mountains, south of the mountain knot... more » of Sierra Verde (40 and 42 N. lot.), and the countries enbosomed by them; Rio del Norte, Rio Colorado. 4. Chippewyan, or Rocky Mountains, north of the mountain knot of Sierra Verde. 5. Gulf of California, California Mountains, and the countries west of the Chippewyan Mountains, and south of 42 N. lot. 6. Columbia River, and the countries south of it. 1. Countries north of the Columbia River, to the Icy Sea and the Chippewyan Mountains. 8. The Great Plain, cast of the Chippewgan Mountains. 9. Highest part of lite Plain running west and east, between 45 and 49 A. lot. Canadian Seas and St. Lawrence River. 10. Southern portion of the Plain, Oxark Mountains, the Hilly Country, the Prairies, the Desert, the southern declivity of the Plain, the Peninsula of Florida. 11. The Appalachian Mountains, and the countries between them and the Atlantic. 12. The Acadian Mountains, and the countries between them and the A1lantic. Nova Scotia. Fundy Bay. 13. The northern part of the great Plain. 14. The Highlands of Labrador. Newfoundland. Hudson's Bay. The Arctic Highlands. The Barren Grounds. 15. The Arctic Archipelago. Baffin's Bay. Greenland. Discovery of the Arctic Archipelago. 16. Political Divisions of North America. 1. North America borders on the south on the Mexican Isthmus. The boundary-line between them is distinctly marked by nature, and is formed on the west by an extensive plain, and on the east by the wide valley of the Rio del Norte. The plain extends from the most northern recess of the Gulf of California eastward on both sides of the Rio Gila to 106 W. long., and between 32 and 34 N. lat.: this plain separates the mou...« less