. Home geography for primary grades . almostshut out the sun. Now we are in a cafion. Wefollow the canon far back into the mountains until itsplits up into many little ravines. Each of thesehas been formed by the waters of many springs. QUESTIONS. Describe the country about your home. Is it a plain, a valley,or a mountain on which you live? Where do you find swampy places? Have you seen the river flood the low-land along its banks? What makes the flood? Does it do any harm? How do you think the valleys were made? Do you think that water had anything to do with making thevalleys? Why? How does
. Home geography for primary grades . almostshut out the sun. Now we are in a cafion. Wefollow the canon far back into the mountains until itsplits up into many little ravines. Each of thesehas been formed by the waters of many springs. QUESTIONS. Describe the country about your home. Is it a plain, a valley,or a mountain on which you live? Where do you find swampy places? Have you seen the river flood the low-land along its banks? What makes the flood? Does it do any harm? How do you think the valleys were made? Do you think that water had anything to do with making thevalleys? Why? How does a valley differ from a plain? Have you ever been in a cafion or ravine? If so, describe it. What is the difference between a hill and a mountain? Where do the streams run quietly, in the valley or high in themountains? Where do the rough rocks stick up and form cliffs for waterfalls? Is there much level land in the mountains? Where are there the most farms, in the valley or in the moun-tains? Where does the water of the river eo to?. THE OCEAN. Where is all the water of the river hurrying?It tumbles over the cliffs. It dashes past therocks. The source of the river is in the mountains. Itis formed by the little rills that are forever fed bythe springs. The rills unite as do the branches upona tree. At last they make the mighty river. The river soon leaves the mountains. It flowsslower, for its bed is not so steep. Now it rests inquiet pools shaded by willows. Now it ripples insoft music over its sandy bed. Finally the river reaches a broad plain throughwhich it slowly winds. It does not want to gofarther. It seems to know that a little beyond the 76 HOME GEOGRAPHY. 77 great ocean waits for it. The river will soon be lostin the ocean. Its work will be done. Rivers are flowing into the ocean from all theland upon our earth. Would you not think that byand by the ocean would fill up and run over itsbanks ? Stop and think a moment. Have we notlearned that water particles are leaving
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