In the new series of these sterling geographies emphasis is laid on industrial, commercial, and political geography, with just enough physiography to bring out the causal relations.
Other pupils, seeing what was going on, followed the example, and soon nearly all the geographies in the room had little paper craft dotting their oceans.
Our geographies read as they did then, our histories have not been rewritten, and our maps remain unaltered.
Although Ecuador is set down in the geographies as a republic, it is simply a popish colony, and the power of the Vatican is nowhere felt so completely as here.
Chimborazo was for a long time supposed to be the king of the Andes, and in the geographies published twenty years ago it is described as the highest summit in the world.
School Geographies generally are being corrected to show it.
We shall very freely admit that, under ordinary circumstances, it would be prima facie evidence against the existence of any spot on the face of this earth, that the geographies took no notice of it.
Illustration: The Leaning Towers of Bologna] Bologna seems to have a specialty of leaning towers, though the school histories and geographies always use that of Pisa to illustrate those architectural curiosities.
When a student of American geography begins the study in earnest, he discovers that our geographies are insufficient, are filled with errors, and that our maps possess a greater number of inaccuracies than truths.
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Mas'udi (beginning of 10th century), and must have then known Madagascar, there is no intelligible indication of it in any of their geographies that have been translated.
The Yosemite Valley and the Yellowstone alone were generally known, but scarcely as national parks; most of the school geographies which mentioned them at all ignored their national character.
In the early Mahommedan histories and geographieswe find (according to a favourite Arabic love of jingle) Kabul and Zabul constantly associated.
Kabul is believed to be the Ortospanum or Ortospana of the geographies of Alexander's march, a name conjectured to be a corruption of Urddhasthana, "high place.
Balboa's name will live in geographies as the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, but Goethals' name will be remembered as the man who made most use of that discovery for the benefit of mankind.
Our geographies were wont to credit this nobleman with having given his name to the continent, but modern research has shown this to be an error.
How is it about the wild horses our geographies describe as still roaming with flowing manes and foaming nostrils and llanoes and pampas?
I have examined many maps and ancient geographies of Spain and do not find it there, yet it is inconceivable that Lima, Spain, would be named after Lima, Peru.
This is the famous scene that is portrayed in the geographies of half a century ago where a llama train is meeting a mule train on a curve at the side of a precipice.
Of the books published, Maury’s Physical Geographiesand Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar at once took their places as standard authorities.
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