Advanced Geography . e. Leather goodsgrinding of coffee and spices are important industries form one of the chief manufactures of Philadelphia. here, as in New York proper. Brooklyn contains a UnitedStates navy yard. Buffalo has grown to be a large city, because it has afine harbor on lake Erie, is at one end of the Erie canal,and is an important railroad center. Great quantities of western products pass through Buffalo. Itsprincipal manufactures are lumber and flour. Meat-packing is herean extensive industry. Rochester and Syracuse are on the Erie canal and theNew York Central railroad. Roche
Advanced Geography . e. Leather goodsgrinding of coffee and spices are important industries form one of the chief manufactures of Philadelphia. here, as in New York proper. Brooklyn contains a UnitedStates navy yard. Buffalo has grown to be a large city, because it has afine harbor on lake Erie, is at one end of the Erie canal,and is an important railroad center. Great quantities of western products pass through Buffalo. Itsprincipal manufactures are lumber and flour. Meat-packing is herean extensive industry. Rochester and Syracuse are on the Erie canal and theNew York Central railroad. Rochester has large flouringmills. Syracuse is famous for its salt-works. Albany, the capital, is an important railroad center andis near the head of tide water in the Hudson. The United States Military Academy is at West Point. Review and MapStudies. — Which islarger, — Maine orNew York? Whichis farther north, —New York or Chi-cago ? — Eichmondor San Francisco ? Refer to the mapson pages 128 and129, and tell what. you can about the climate ostates. Which states of this group are partly in the Atlantic coastalplain ? Which border on the Great Lakes ? Name a river anda mountain range forming part of the boundary of West are some of the products of the coastal plain in these staucrf ?See lessons 33, 42, 122, 123 and 137. What useful products are taken from the Allegheny ridges andplateau in this group of states ? See lessons 35 and 128. Whattwo rivers unite at Pittsburg to form the Ohio river ? Describe the main slopes of the land in this group of what state is Long Island a part? Pennsylvania. Philadelphia has a fine harbor on thetidal portion of the Delaware river. This city is not farfrom rich mines of coal and of iron ore. Philadelphiatherefore exports coal, and manufactures great quantitiesof iron and steel goods. One of the best sheep-raising districts in our countryextends across this state and into Ohio ; and Philadelphianow leads the world in m
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