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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, tobacco, senna and coflfee. An extensivetransit trade is carried on with Egypt and interior Africa, in golddust, ostrich feathers and senna. The entire valley contains theremains of ancient buildings, the most numerous lying below Don-gola. ABYSSINIA, (^r ^■> HABESH. An isolated country of Eastern Africa, consisting of three divisions,Amhara, Tigre and Shoa. Tigre and Amhara constitute one king-dom, and Shoa another; they are all divided into a great number ofsmaller provinces, Gondar, in Amhara, is the capital of all Ethiopia,Capital of Shoa, Ankobar; of Tigre, Adowa. Area about 200,000square miles. Population about 3,000,000, Drained by numerou»»rivers emptying into the Nile. Lowland soil grows wheat, cotton, maize, rice, sugar cane i 46.flax. No foreign trade except exportation of small quantities ofivory, musk, coffee and gold dust: manufactures limited. Inhabit-ants a mixture of many races, warlike and uncivilized. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 51 MAP OF EGYPT NUBIA AND ABYSSINIA.
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63 ATLAS OF THE WORLD. MADAGASCAR. Mad^a-gaskar. The largest African island; the third largrest in the world. Area,228,500 square miles. Population, 3,500,000. Near the centre orisland, within an arc of 90 miles, there are 100 extinct volcanoes.Mean yearly temperature about 77°. Government is an absolute monarchy, limited by powerful cus-toms. The island has been swayed by the dynasty of the Hovaasince 1810. Since the treaty of Tamatave, March 17, 1886, the coun-try has been under the protectorate of France. Commercial anddiplomatic relations established between the island and UnitedStates, Great Britain and France, in this century, previous to 1868.Capital, Tananarive; population estimated at 100,000. Soil generally fertile; forests of valuable timber abound. Chiefproducts are rice, sugar, silk, cotton, bananas, potatoes, India rub-ber. Stock raising and agriculture are the main industries. Chiefexports are cattle, hides, coffee, lard, sugar, vanilla, wax, gum, riceand seeds; princi

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