. Home geography for primary grades . A ROAD CUT THROUGH A HILL. Roads are made smooth and hard by putting onthem a layer of crushed rock and drawing heavyrollers over the rock. Where many people travelroads are sprinkled so that they will not becomedusty. Many railroads have been built through thevalleys where the most of the people live. Theyhave also been built across broad deserts, so that HOME GEOGRAPHY. 173 those who live upon opposite sides of the desert cango back and forth. Mountain ranges used to separate living upon one side did not know anything. ON A MOUNTAIN TRAIL. a
. Home geography for primary grades . A ROAD CUT THROUGH A HILL. Roads are made smooth and hard by putting onthem a layer of crushed rock and drawing heavyrollers over the rock. Where many people travelroads are sprinkled so that they will not becomedusty. Many railroads have been built through thevalleys where the most of the people live. Theyhave also been built across broad deserts, so that HOME GEOGRAPHY. 173 those who live upon opposite sides of the desert cango back and forth. Mountain ranges used to separate living upon one side did not know anything. ON A MOUNTAIN TRAIL. about the other side. Long tunnels have been dugthrough mountains, so that now we can cross amountain as easily as we used to cross a plain. Great steamers move over the oceans. Theyare much swifter and more comfortable than sailingvessels. Steamers do not have to wait for favorablewinds. Let us take a trip from the city to a mine in 174 HOME GEOGRAPHY. the high mountains. We shall see how peopletravel in all kinds of places. We will first go on board a steamer and ride upthe river for a few miles. Our steamer does notmind the wind, and it can move against the currentof the river. The steamer is like a floating is everything on it that we need. As soon as we get where the river becomesshallow the steamer has to stop. Now we leave itand take the cars. For many hours the engine pullsour train through a nearly level country. There aremany people living here, and much produce to becarried back and forth. At last the mountains come in sight. Now thetrain mo
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