The United States and Their Industries (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The United States and Their Industries The Continent of North America covers an area of more than seven millions of square miles, and is twice as large as Europe. About half of it, viz., 3, 530, 000 square miles, belongs to Canada and to the British Empire, and the rest to the United States. In this vast continent, which extends to the Arctic regions on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, every possible variety of climate and scenery can be found. Contrasted with Europe, every natural feature, whether Lake, River, Forest, Plain, or Mountain, will be found to be on a great and magnificent scale. There is no such continuous Range in the world as the North American mountains, which traverse the whole continent from north to south, keeping close to the Pacific Ocean. In South America the same elevations are continued as far south as the Straits of Magellan. North America occupies a central position on the world's surface, and has, as it were, two doors, one looking towards Europe and one towards Asia. This is an important fact to remember when we look at the ocean highways of the world and see how they communicate with the ports and harbours of both sides of this continent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.