New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . so numerous as in the north ; mostof the people live on farms orplantations and their most im-portant crop is cotton. This isthe fluffy fibre that grows roundthe seed of a bush three or fourfeet high. The seed-pods ripenand burst and then the cottonhangs from them in white cotton, these States jn-i >-diiee corn, sugar, rice, and to-bacco. Early in the season the \send to the northern cities fruitand spring vegetables. Thecoast plain contains some large tracts of forestchielly southern pine, which yields valuabllu
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . so numerous as in the north ; mostof the people live on farms orplantations and their most im-portant crop is cotton. This isthe fluffy fibre that grows roundthe seed of a bush three or fourfeet high. The seed-pods ripenand burst and then the cottonhangs from them in white cotton, these States jn-i >-diiee corn, sugar, rice, and to-bacco. Early in the season the \send to the northern cities fruitand spring vegetables. Thecoast plain contains some large tracts of forestchielly southern pine, which yields valuabllumber and a great deal of turpentine anresin. There are cotton factories in many placetespecially in North Carolina, South Carolinaand Georgia. North Carolina manufacturetobacco, Alabama and Tennessee mine iro:ore in the mountains and produce much iror .li .iUt. Find Birmingham and Chattanooga, wherthere are extensive rolling mills. Coalabundant in the south. Find New Orleamthe great cotton market and the largest city cthe south. It enjoys a large trade down th. Cutting Sugar-Cane, Louisiana. UNITED STATES. 83 Mississippi, and exports cotton, rice, and sugar. Mobile and Galveston are great cotton markets, and Memphis is a large river port. Wilmington deals in lumber, turpentine, and cotton; Savannah and Charleston in cotton and rice. Florida is a sandy peninsula with many lakes and swamps, and sends oranges, lemons, and vegetables to the north. Find St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Many invalids go there to spend the winter. Texas is the laro;est of all the States and raises much cotton, some wheat, and vast herds of cattle. Find Dallas. What river divides Texas fromMexico 1 The South has a Avonderful variety ofscenery—forests in the Atlantic and GulfStates, prairies in Texas, orange groves inFlorida, cypress swamps in Arkansas, Missis-sippi, and Louisiana, the flood plain of theMississippi, and the mountains of Tennessee andGeorgia. Find out all you can about these cities and
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