A home geography of New York city . dly and clearly those physiographic featuresof America which have been importarst in guidingthe unfolding of our industrial and national life. Thearrangement is mainly geographical. Among thethemes receiving special treatment are : The EasternGateway of the United States, the Appalachian Bar-rier, the Great Lakes and American Commerce, theCivil War, and Mines and Mountain Life. ? Closingchapters deal with the unity and diversity of Ameri-can life and with physiography as affecting Americandestiny. The book will be found particularly interesting andvaluable t
A home geography of New York city . dly and clearly those physiographic featuresof America which have been importarst in guidingthe unfolding of our industrial and national life. Thearrangement is mainly geographical. Among thethemes receiving special treatment are : The EasternGateway of the United States, the Appalachian Bar-rier, the Great Lakes and American Commerce, theCivil War, and Mines and Mountain Life. ? Closingchapters deal with the unity and diversity of Ameri-can life and with physiography as affecting Americandestiny. The book will be found particularly interesting andvaluable to students and teachers of geography andhistory, but it will also appeal to the general very large number of rare and attractive photo-graphs and the numerous maps are of importance invivifying and explaining the text. GINN & COMPANY Publishers INUV ** ^^. rill li\i; P)ORuV(;iis ( l\ Kl A HOME GEOGRAPHY OFNEW YORK CITY BY GUSTAVE STRAUBENMULLER District Superintendent of Schools, New York City GINN & COMPANY BOSTON • NEW YORK • CHICAGO • LONDON 3 NUV 4 9yU5 Copyright, 1905, byGUSTAVE STRAUBENMULLEH ALL RIGHTS JEfie jatbenarum l^xtii GINN & COMPANYPRIETORS • BOSTON ? PRO-. PREFACE Wholesome pride in ones home, ones immediate surroundings,and ones own city engenders not only a love for this circumscriljedarea, but opens the heart for the larger love, — the love of countryand of humanity. Home geography emphasizes mans intimate connection withsurrounding geographical featm-es and his dependence upon them;it shows how man utilizes the opportunities offered by nature toestablish relationships with her; it dwells upon mans expediencyin turning to profitable account the resources of his environment;and it also arouses in the learner a feeling of reverence for thoseresponsible fo
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