. Harper's school geography . land anytable-land ?—5. By what is the Low Central Plain divided ? Into what ? What namehas each ? In what basin is the southern slope ? CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND ANIMALS. 1. The West Indies, Central America, and a large partof Mexico have a tropical or constantly warm climate. The season of tropical rains lasts many weeks, the rest of the yearbeing dry. The vegetation is luxuriant—coffee, sugar, corn, cotton, and to-bacco are extensively cultivated, and the banana, pine-apple,lemon, orange, and other tropical fruits are produced with littlelabor. European grains a
. Harper's school geography . land anytable-land ?—5. By what is the Low Central Plain divided ? Into what ? What namehas each ? In what basin is the southern slope ? CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND ANIMALS. 1. The West Indies, Central America, and a large partof Mexico have a tropical or constantly warm climate. The season of tropical rains lasts many weeks, the rest of the yearbeing dry. The vegetation is luxuriant—coffee, sugar, corn, cotton, and to-bacco are extensively cultivated, and the banana, pine-apple,lemon, orange, and other tropical fruits are produced with littlelabor. European grains are grown on the plateaus. The forestsabound in mahogany, rose-wood, and palm-trees. 2. The northern third of the continent has a very coldclimate, excepting a strip along the western coast. The Polar Current passes along the eastern coast to Newfoundland. Ice nearly closes the broad entrance to Baffin Bay, and Hudson Bay is open only about six weeks in the western coasts, from Alaska to the Columbia River, have a. Longitude Wost 30 0 Qf^ynglt^^^ifiyU-XTj^er ^ frofWk QUESTIONS ON THE MAP.—CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND ANIMALS. 21
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