New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . mportant seaport is othe Gulf of Mexico? What is the name ofseaport on the Pacific coast ? (Page 86). TOPICS ON SPANISH NORTH AMERICA. I. Countries. The larger. The Surface and Productions. Of the mines. Of the plantation Of the forests. People. Ancestors. Language. Food. Houses. West Indies. What group of islands southeast of North AmericaName the four largest. What group north of Cuba fontpart of the West Indies f What sea between the West Indi<and South America f In what zone are most of t
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . mportant seaport is othe Gulf of Mexico? What is the name ofseaport on the Pacific coast ? (Page 86). TOPICS ON SPANISH NORTH AMERICA. I. Countries. The larger. The Surface and Productions. Of the mines. Of the plantation Of the forests. People. Ancestors. Language. Food. Houses. West Indies. What group of islands southeast of North AmericaName the four largest. What group north of Cuba fontpart of the West Indies f What sea between the West Indi<and South America f In what zone are most of the WeiIndies I (See map, page 27). The West Indies are so cooled by oceabreezes that they are neither so hot nor sunhealthful as the lowlands of Central Ame;ica; but at times they are visited by terriblwindstorms, or hurricanes, which blow dowbuildings and sink ships. The Bahamas are low, sandy islands sirrounded by shallow waters, but the largeislands of the West Indies are the high anrugged tops of a range of mountains whoslower part is covered by the Market scene, Mexico. MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. 89 It was on one of the Bahama Islands that ohinibus first landed ; therefore the Spanish aimed the West Indies. They made slaves ? the Indians and worked them to <leath, and len negro slaves were brought to the })lanta- 3ns. Now there are more negroes than hite people in the islands, but they were all t free many y(\irs ago. Cuba is the largest of the West Indian lands. It was formerly a dependency of Dain, but since 1902 it has been an indepen- mt republic with a president, vice-president, mate, and a House of Representatives; orto Rico is a dependency of the United ates (page 85); Jamaica, Trinidad, the diamas, and most of the other ishuids ilong to the United Kingdom ; but Haiti is icupied by two independent negro republics. any of the islands are surrounded by coial e/s. These are low rocks made by the coral limals, ov po/i/ps. They are foiuid in many
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