Monteith's physical and political geography; in two parts Part I Geography taught as a science .. Part II Local and civil geography .. . THE CONTINENTS,—THE INFLUENCE OF THEIR FORM. 13. Chart showing the Correspondence between the West Coast Line of the Old World and theEast Coast Line of the New World. Imagine the Old World to be moved westward till the mainland would meetthat of the New World ; what African gulf would be entered by the easternpart of South America ? What American sea by the western part of Africa ?Where would be the points of contact ? Into what would the Amazon Riverflow ?
Monteith's physical and political geography; in two parts Part I Geography taught as a science .. Part II Local and civil geography .. . THE CONTINENTS,—THE INFLUENCE OF THEIR FORM. 13. Chart showing the Correspondence between the West Coast Line of the Old World and theEast Coast Line of the New World. Imagine the Old World to be moved westward till the mainland would meetthat of the New World ; what African gulf would be entered by the easternpart of South America ? What American sea by the western part of Africa ?Where would be the points of contact ? Into what would the Amazon Riverflow ? With wliat American peninsula would the British Isles be merged ?Great Britain would bo in what direction from Newfoundland i 40. All Important Point of Difference between the divi-sions of the continents consists in the comparative lengthof coast Unos. In proportion to the extent of surface, thelongest line of coast belongs to Europe, the next to NorthAmerica, and the least to Africa. Europe, with but threesides bounded by water, has, proportionately, four times asmuch coast hne as the whole of Afi-ica; North America hasthree times as much as Africa. 41. About One-third of the
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