. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. peak in the state. TheHoosac Tunnel and Hudson Park, with a NORTH AMERICA 2582 NORTH AMERICA natural bridge, are features of interest. Thecity contains a public library, an academyand a state normal school. It has goodmunicipal buildings and a city is excellent water power, and theprincipal manufactures are cotton, woolenand print goods, boots and shoes, cigars,creamery products and maehinerj. It wassettled in 1765, remai
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. peak in the state. TheHoosac Tunnel and Hudson Park, with a NORTH AMERICA 2582 NORTH AMERICA natural bridge, are features of interest. Thecity contains a public library, an academyand a state normal school. It has goodmunicipal buildings and a city is excellent water power, and theprincipal manufactures are cotton, woolenand print goods, boots and shoes, cigars,creamery products and maehinerj. It wassettled in 1765, remained a part of Adamsuntil 1878 and was chartered as a city in1895. Population, 1910, 22,019; in 1917,practically unchanged. ORTH AMERICA, thei northern division of thetwo vast land masses com-prising the American con-tinent, and the third larg-est grand division of theworld, exceeded^ in sizeonly by Asia and is becoming the mostimportant of all the con-tinents, though that honoris yet reserved to Euroi:)e,where there has existed acivilization for more thana thousand years. How-ever, it contains who speak a com-mon lanjjuage than any. One of theorioinal owners other except Asia, and in its central sectionis the richest nation in the world, the UnitedStates, much of whose wealth is as yet un-developed. Within recent years North America hastaken a position in the world which is des-tined to give it supremacy, particularly asEurope has felt wars devastation and haslost millions of men and billions of dollarsin crushing the strongest single nation with-in its borders—a nation which sought to im-pose its will upon the world. North Americapossesses nearly half of the wealth of theworld; this continent provides more than halfof the worlds cotton for clothing, two-thirdsof its petroleum, three-fourths of its silver,nearly the same proportion of its gold, almosthalf of its cereals for bread, more than halfof its copper, and, most important of all inindustry, over h
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