New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . a-? -^ ^4 ^c-^rZs frit-I ° 80 UNITED STATES. snow on the mountains and has a deep, narrowgorge or canyon, with steep sides and many fallsand rapids, but the Columljia is navigable bothabove and below the rapids, where it cuts itsway through the Cascade Mountains. What isthe large branch of the Colum1)ia ? South ofSnake River to the Colorado between the AVas-atch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada hes a. East River, New York, and Brooklyn Bridge. high platiuu called the Great Basin. None ofthe streams of this region go to the sea. Na
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . a-? -^ ^4 ^c-^rZs frit-I ° 80 UNITED STATES. snow on the mountains and has a deep, narrowgorge or canyon, with steep sides and many fallsand rapids, but the Columljia is navigable bothabove and below the rapids, where it cuts itsway through the Cascade Mountains. What isthe large branch of the Colum1)ia ? South ofSnake River to the Colorado between the AVas-atch Mountains and the Sierra Nevada hes a. East River, New York, and Brooklyn Bridge. high platiuu called the Great Basin. None ofthe streams of this region go to the sea. Name tlie largest lake. What city is near it? Sketcha map of the United States, show the Mississippi, theMissouri, the Ohio, the St. Lawrence, the Columbia, andthe Colorado Rivers. Heat and Rainfall. Most of the winds that blow vv lhp X^nitpdStates and Southern Can-ada come from the , and south. Tlicwestern -wands cross tlieCascade Mountains and theSierra Nevada, and arecooled so much that mostof their moisture falls onthe western slopes of theseranges. Beyond this they ,1 , ,.,„, (-„,.., Winter in the North. sweep over the western highlands as dry winds, and thus much of that regionis so dry that few trees or food plants will grow, andthese arid districts are partly desert. The eastern halfof the United States is well watered and makes oneof the best farming regions in the world. Much rain falls along the gulf coast, but the north-ern, par
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