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Title: Where We Live
A Home Geography

Author: Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

Release Date: October 7, 2007 [EBook #22911]

Language: English

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WHERE WE LIVE

A HOME GEOGRAPHY

GENERAL EDITION

by

EMILIE V. JACOBS

Supervising Principal of the Richardson L. Wright School,
Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, 1913, 1914
CHRISTOPHER SOWER COMPANY
124 North Eighteenth Street

CONTENTS

Page
Foreword 5
Introduction 7

PART ONE
I. Our School 11
II. The Streets and Roads 17
III. The Buildings 22
IV. The Town as a Whole 31
V. The People 36
VI. Industries and Occupations 42
VII. Animals and Plants 46
VIII. Transportation and Communication 50
IX. Physiography of the Neighborhood 54
X. Direction 66

PART TWO
I. The Earth as a Whole 73
II. The Seasons 79
III. The Zones 82
IV. North America 93
V. Countries of North America 100
VI. Trips 105

MAPS

I. The Western Hemisphere 74-75
II. The Eastern Hemisphere 74-75
III. The World 82
IV. Surface Map of North America 96
V. North America 100

FOREWORD

Once upon a time as four blind men sat by the roadside they heard the
tramp of an elephant's feet, and said one to another, "Here comes an
elephant; now we shall know what he is like." The first blind man put
out his hand and touched the elephant's broad side. The second took hold
of a leg. The third grasped a t