. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ever been to Mexico. about the usual ignorance of the size ini- with my established standard—the school by the expansion, or flattening out. of the The republic part of it is much like the portance, interest and climate of tbe house—but perhaps I can get at it in an upper end of the Cordenllas, the chain of • hot meat pies that the boy was lustily country, and of the habits and cus-lom other way, by another comparison. mountains reaching up from Central Am- calling out on the station plalfoim. A tour- th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ever been to Mexico. about the usual ignorance of the size ini- with my established standard—the school by the expansion, or flattening out. of the The republic part of it is much like the portance, interest and climate of tbe house—but perhaps I can get at it in an upper end of the Cordenllas, the chain of • hot meat pies that the boy was lustily country, and of the habits and cus-lom other way, by another comparison. mountains reaching up from Central Am- calling out on the station plalfoim. A tour- the Dcople that I was going to see. Suppose we select States from Iht erica. These plateaiisluy from six toeight ist invested in one, look a bite, and called Most people living under the ginr ous Union, say along the Atlantic seaboard thousand feet above the level of the Gulf to the boy r *■ Here, boy, this here aint no oW itnrs and Stripes are willing to k now to make up a country equal in area tn of Mexico, and ihe climate lecool, varying meat pie! ■ Well. I knnw it ain?. an-. hing Mexicos 750,000 square miles. Com-All mencing away up at Maine, we will take iram. all the New England Slates. Maine, NewV of us remember much about Mex- Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts,Kcept as a red strip of map in the old Rhode Island and Connecticut, then wein my brie! will add New York. Pennsylvania, Dela-yes and wan- ware. New Jersey, Maryland. Virginia,:d at the map West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,eemed for all Kentucky, Tennessee. Alabama, Georgia,North Carolina, South Carolina and Flor-ida, and the total area is less than that o(i grow older, wo come more and Mexico. When I figured this out I came tomeasure things by corapansons— to the conclusion that my North bad an abnormally large tail. lat the United Stales is the bi(1 North America, and mcntall;f which I know and part of wtlember much a geography; I recall L ._., school days, with half shut eyes and
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