Excerpt from Physiographic Regions of the United States We thus have an Atlantic slope, a Great Lake slope, a Gulf slope, and a Pacific slope; and these terms are coming into common use for the four grand divisions of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Physiography of Western United States In calling this book Physiography we are merely accepting the American usage of a not very fortunate term. The central theme of the work is the land forms of western United States and how they came about. There is no doubt about this center Of interest, but the circumference Of an appropriate mass Of fact may be hard to fix. A companion volume on the Physiography of Eastern United States is now in preparation. It may be assumed that geologists and geographers have equal interest in land forms, but the quality of their interests is very different. To the geologist land forms are a kind of final product, the end Of a story. TO the geographer they Offer a beginning, a point Of departure. TO the former, land forms depend on all the physical processes of geology. TO the latter, they depend on nothing; almost everything else depends on them in some measure. According to the above-made statement of our central theme this book is mainly geological. It treats land forms as effects, not as causes. But before doing so, or while doing so, it is necessary to devote a'large share Of space to the description of forms as they are. Such descriptions have equal interest to the geographer. Moreover, to a writer who shares the geographic interest there is a constant temptation to clothe these land forms with life by pointing out their influence on climate and life and habitation and civilization. NO attempt has been made to resist this impulse but, on the other hand, there is no attempt to treat such matters systematically or symmetrically for all parts Of the territory. They belong to the illustrations, not to the systematic framework. If industries are named in one section Of the country and not in another it is merely because they serve to illuminate a point in one case and not in the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A System of Physical Geography: A Treatise on the Physical Geography of the United States The frequent. Expression of this desire by many teachers induced Mr. D. M. 7arren, one of the publishers, to undertake the preparation of the present volume. He has derived much valuable assistance in this labor from Mr. Arthur sumner, of the Rhode Island State Normal School, at Providence; and from Mr; P. W. Bartlett, Principal of the Chapman School, Boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Physiography and Geology of the Coastal Plain Province of Virginia Geographers have long recognized three physiographic regions within the Middle Atlantic slope. They are known, beginning on the west, as the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plateau, and the Coastal Plain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Geography of New State: Physical and Descriptive I know of no other region whose physiography is so inter esting as that embraced in New York and the New England States, and I have therefore dwelt much on its physical geography, past and present. Inasmuch as the state owes its commercial supremacy mainly to certain of these physio graphic features, I think it well to impress their importance upon the attention of the student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Physiography of the United States: Ten Monographs The study of the origin of earth forms has made remark able progress during the last twenty years, so that it is scarcely exaggeration to say that a new science has been created. While those who have aided in its development are learned investigators exploring the frontiers of human knowledge, the more important results are SO simple as to be appreciated not only by intelligent laymen, but even by school children. Practical experiment has shown that the explanation of the work of rain and streams in the shaping of the earth is one of the most attractive and fruitful nature studies which can be intro duced into primary and secondary schools, and a move ment has been organized among educators for its extensive' introduction. Professor W. M. Davis of Harvard Uni versity, who is a leader in this movement, proposed about two years ago that the National Geographic Society undertake the preparation of a series of essays on geo graphic subjects, enlisting in the work some of the numerous specialists in its membership, and making such arrangements for publication that the essays should be accessible to the teachers of the land. This proposition was developed and discussed at a conference held in Washington in June, 1894, and a few months later the managers of the society took action, appointing an editing committee under the chairmanship of Major J. W. Powell. Arrangements for publication were made with the Amer ican Book Company, and this volume is the first product of that cooperation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.