Advanced Geography (1899) (14595170220)

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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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rbor,because they can there meetthe freighted trains from sev-eral railroad lines that do notenter the city of New York.Paterson has the largest silk factories in the UnitedStates. Camden, opposite Philadelphia, is one of thecities having shipyards on the Delaware. Trenton, the capital, is famous for its fine pottery.V-Delaware. Wilmington contains more than one thirdthe population of the state. The chief manufactures ofthe city are leather and cars. The canning and packing of fruit form the leadingindustry of Dover, the capital of Delaware. Maryland. Baltimore is on a fine harbor not far fromthe head of Chesapeake bay. The foreign commerce ofthis city has grown rapidly in recent years. Baltimore is almost surrounded by fruit districts. Itis not far from the +obacco regions of Virginia and Penn-sylvania. The long grain belt from lake Ontario toChesapeake bay includes the country around Baltimore.This bay supplies more oysters than are taken from anyother equal area in the world. X ^W^
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o Longitude 79 77 Greenwich fc^ \ .- •, **• - 146 SOUTHERN STATES, —EASTERN SECTION. With these natural advantages, Baltimore takes highrank in the canning and shipping of fruit and oysters,and in the manufacture of tobacco articles and flour. The United States Naval Academy is located atAnnapolis, the capital of this state./ Virginia. Richmond ranks next to New York and St.■ Louis in the manufacture of tobacco articles. Richmondis also a leading market for leaf tobacco. This city is at the head of tide water on the James,and has an active coasting trade. It is the state capital. Norfolk, the chief port of Virginia, ships great quanti-ties of cotton. There is a large United States navy yardon the harbor, opposite Norfolk. Petersburg and Lynchburg are important tobacco markets. West Virginia. Wheeling is the center of the iron

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