Chapter VI: Trips

1

Suppose you were to sail from New York City to Iceland.

1. What would you take with you that the people would be glad to get?

2. What kind of clothing would you need for the trip?

3. Over what water would you sail?

4. In what direction would you go?

5. What countries would you pass?

6. How could you tell when you were getting near Iceland?

7. What would you see in Iceland?

8. Could you bring back to the people at home anything useful?

2

Let us go to visit the Panama Canal, keeping our vessel close to the shore all the way.

1. What clothing shall we need? Why?

2. What countries shall we pass? What islands, peninsulas and capes?

3. On what water shall we sail?

4. What would the people be glad to have from our country?

5. Where could we stop to get some coffee, rubber and bananas to bring back?

3

Plan a trip along the Pacific Ocean.

1. Where will you start?

2. Where will you go?

3. What will you see at the place from which you start and at the end of the trip?

4. What interesting places will you pass?

4

Let us cross our country by train from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.

1. How long shall we be on the train?

2. Describe the scenery as we go west.

3. What rivers shall we cross?

4. What kinds of industries could we visit on the way across?

5

How far can a boat sail if it starts in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to go as far west as possible?

6

A trip up the Mississippi River.

1. How would the climate change?

2. What name is given to this part of the land through which the river flows?

3. What scenes could we expect to see on the shores of the river?

4. What products would the boats we pass be carrying?

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| Transcriber's notes |
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| Obvious spelling/typographical and punctuation errors have been |
| corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within |
| the text and consultation of external sources. |
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| Inconsistent hyphenations have been retained: |
| school-room/schoolroom, school-house/schoolhouse, |
| note-book/notebook. |
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| On page 19 in Chapter II an apparent printing error |
| interchanging the section heading "5" and the first line of the |
| following text has been corrected. |
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| Re the question at the end of Chapter III: the cover of the 1913 |
| edition shows a statue of a man, possibly William Penn, |
| surrounded by silhouettes of the six continents. The cover of |
| the 1914 general edition shows the dome of the Capitol at |
| Washington (cf the frontispiece) in place of the statue. |
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| The original book was published at Philadelphia by the |
| Christopher Sower Company, 124 North Eighteenth Street. The |
| copyright date was 1913 and 1914. |
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