Advanced Geography . ) A Of course we all wish to know agreat deal about this home, — whatkinds of houses or huts the peoplelive in, how they dress, what they buyfrom us or sell to us, what strangeplants and animals they see. Every day as we study this book,we shall learn new facts about theearth,—-its forms of land and water,its plants, its animals or its of these are shown in the pic-tures on this page. The earth is a great ball ofland and water, surroundedby air. We see so small apart of the earth at a timethat it does not look like aball. There are many proofs thatthe earth is
Advanced Geography . ) A Of course we all wish to know agreat deal about this home, — whatkinds of houses or huts the peoplelive in, how they dress, what they buyfrom us or sell to us, what strangeplants and animals they see. Every day as we study this book,we shall learn new facts about theearth,—-its forms of land and water,its plants, its animals or its of these are shown in the pic-tures on this page. The earth is a great ball ofland and water, surroundedby air. We see so small apart of the earth at a timethat it does not look like aball. There are many proofs thatthe earth is round. Here are afew of them: 1. Many persons have gonearound the earth. 2. As ships sail out to sea,their hulls are lost to sight while their sails are clearly seen. 3. When travelers go day after day towards the north or thesouth, new stars rise over the horizon before them, while the beneath the horizon. 4. Sometimes the earth moves between the sun and the moonand casts a shadow on the moon. T
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