Advanced Geography . COMMEECK 119 107. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. No state nor country produces all the tilings which itspeople need, but each has a surplus of some products. Neither tea nor coffee grows in our country. Brazil, however,is able to send usm coffee S ~-*i \inl ^M~ 108. Highways of Trade, — Water Routes. The principal highways of trade are oceans, railroads,rivers and canals. Besides the transportation on these great highways, we have learned that camels bear loads of salt, ivory and oil across broad deserts ; that reindeer drag sledges over the icy plains of northern Eurasia;
Advanced Geography . COMMEECK 119 107. Domestic and Foreign Commerce. No state nor country produces all the tilings which itspeople need, but each has a surplus of some products. Neither tea nor coffee grows in our country. Brazil, however,is able to send usm coffee S ~-*i \inl ^M~ 108. Highways of Trade, — Water Routes. The principal highways of trade are oceans, railroads,rivers and canals. Besides the transportation on these great highways, we have learned that camels bear loads of salt, ivory and oil across broad deserts ; that reindeer drag sledges over the icy plains of northern Eurasia; that yaks toil up and down the Himalaya slopes; that llamas carry packs, or bundles of goods, over some parts of the Andes. These animals are of great service to man, for they can bear burdens in places where there. each year, while China andJapan can supply us with tea. England cannot raise grain or beef enough for her own people, but the prairies of the United States andthe steppes of Russia have wheat andcattle to spare. New England has skilled workmen and greatmills for cloth-making. No cotton grows in thatregion, but enough is produced on the Southernplains to supply all the mills in our own country, and many inGreat Britain besides. The buying and selling, or the exchange of goods, iscalled trade. Trade on a large scale may be called com-merce. Domestic commerce is that carried onbetween various parts of one country. Foreign ^commerce is that carried on between onecountry and another. Which of the following are domestictrade and which are foreign? — Bostonsells boots and shoes to the people ofTexas. Brazil sends rubber to New sends beef to nearly all parts ofour country and to Europe. Erance ex-ports laces to the United States. Switzer-land imports raw silk from Italy. Great
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