The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography

_Brazil_ is the largest of the countries of South America, and is level and fertile, producing tobacco, sugar, indigo, coffee, and pepper. Diamonds are found here. In the interi...

Boston is the capital, and being the largest city in New England, may properly be considered the metropolis of this whole section of country. It is built upon a peninsula at the...

[2] The frequent questions on the counties, are not inserted, with an intention of requiring pupils to retain in their memories the whole of them;—but rather that no pupil shoul...

These works are ingeniously constructed at Fair Mount on the eastern bank of the river. The water is raised by the action of an engine, moved by the water power of the river its...

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In no country do desert and fertile lands come in so close a neighborhood as in Africa. The northern part along the Mediterranean has a fertile soil, but immediately south is th...

45. _What is a Valley?_ 46. _A Shore or coast?_ 47. What part of the coast of North America approaches nearest to Asia? 48. What ocean washes the eastern coast of America? 49. T...

_Michigan Territory._ The climate is severe, and the winter lasts from the middle of November to March. The face of the country is level, and the productions are wheat, maize, o...