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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... The principal mountain-system of Europe is formed by the Can-tabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Cevennes, the Alps, and the Balkan, extending eastward from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. What boundaries are formed by it? Name a branch in each penin-sula extending southward from it. Name a branch extending north-ward in France. In Austria. In what directions do the Kiolen Mountains extend, and what boundary do they form? The Ural? The Caucasus? Name three of the principal rivers of the Arctic slope. Three of the slope towards the Baltic and the North Sea. Four of the Atlantic slope. Two of the Mediterranean. Four of the slope towards the Black Sea and the Caspian. Describe the following:--Dwina, Volga, Don, Dnieper, Danube, Rhone, Tagus, Douro, Loire, Rhine, Elbe, Oder, Vistula. Upon what bodies of water would a vessel go from Paris to London? From Copenhagen to Bordeaux? Liverpool to Marseilles? Trieste to Odessa for wheat? London to Gibraltar? Venice to Hamburg? A war-vessel from Cronstadt to the Crimea? From Dantzic to Arch-angel? In circumnavigating the island of Great Britain? A coasting vessel along the northern shores of the Mediterranean to Venice? Constantinople, south and west to Algiers? In what direction from Paris is Lake Geneva? Berlin? What countries would be traversed in going by the shortest route from London to Rome? In what zone is Lapland? Sicily? Russia? France? Great Britain? What states are crossed by the Arctic Circle? In what latitude is Europe? What states are crossed by the 40th paral-lel? In what longitude from Washington? From Greenwich? What states are crossed by the meridian of Greenwich? Question in full upon the countries not included here, are to be found in connection with the Maps of Great Britain and Central Europe. 1....
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130296172
- ISBN 13 9781130296174
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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