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Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Ridges and Troughs o£ the Jura Region. Beautiful lakes abound near the margins of the Alps. The Rhoneriver flows into and out of Lake Geneva, while the waters of LakeLucerne find their outlet in a branch of the river Rhine. Thousands of cattle graze in the valleys among theAlps. As the warm season approaches and the wintersnow melts away, the cattle are driven to the grassyslopes high up the mountain sides. The cold season
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high, — a little higher than Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevada.The snow-cap on Mt. Blanc reaches halfway down its sides. The Alps are pierced by several railroad tunnels. The St.Gothard tunnel is nearly ten miles long, — the longest in the world.It connects the Swiss plateau with the basin of the Po river. Mt.Cenis tunnel is near the western end of the Po basin. finds the herds again in thelower valleys. Cheese is avaluable product in this high-land region and is a leading article of export. There is very little coal in the Swiss plateau, butswift streams supply plenty of power for the mills andfactories. The Swiss people weave large quantities ofsilk and cotton goods, and make many fine watches. THE SPANISH PENINSULA. 77 The western part of the Alps bends southward betweenthe valleys of the Po and the Rhone. This part of themountain chain extends to theshore of the Mediterranean sea.A long branch called the Apen-nines runs the entire length ofthe peninsula of Italy. On the western

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