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  Rev. Frederick Smith
  Blackie & Son, 1900 - Commercial geography - 228 pages
  ON TRADE AND PRODUCTIONS Lesson i A Town Market
  A Nations Market
  Man in Natures Workshop What he trades with
  Climate II Wind and Rain
  Climate III Ocean Currents
  The Influence of Climate on Productions
  Other CerealsOats Barley Maize Rice
  Fruit How to grow and what to do with it
  The Influence of Mineral Resources on In dustry and Trade
  THE ANGLOSAXON TRADING COMMUNITIES 11 The British Empire What we are I
  The British Empire How it has been built up
  The Commercial Empire What we have built up
  The Home Land I
  Canada Ill
  Other British Colonies in America
  Australasia I
  Australasia II
  SOME COMMODITIES OF TRADE Page Lesson 27 Coal I
  Manufactured IronMachinery c
  Tin Lead Zinc Nickel
  Cold StorageWhat it is and what it does
  Deadmeat Trade
  Hides and Leather Boots and Shoes
  GREATER BRITAIN 55 Traderoutes
  Naval Protection and Coalingstations
  What We as a Nation Can Do
  Necessity and Importance of Machinery
  How to Maintain our Industrial Position
  Our Colonies and Ourselves
  Commercial Geography of the British Empire and the United States
  America Atlantic Australasia Australia barley Britain British East Indies British Empire British Guiana British Isles Canada Canal Cape Colony cattle centre cereals Ceylon chief chiefly climate coal coal-fields coast coffee commercial copper cotton cultivation district earth East Africa Egypt England equator Europe export fertile forests fruit Glasgow gold grow grown heat hides Hong Kong important Importing—The United Kingdom India industry Ireland iron and steel iron-ore Islands jute lakes land leather London machinery maize manufacture metal mineral mother-country Mountains Natal nation Newfoundland northern oats Ocean Pacific plains population ports possessions produce quantities Queensland railway region rice rivers round season sheep ships shores silver smelted South Africa South Australia South Wales southern square miles Straits Settlements sugar supply surface Tasmania things timber town trade tropical vast vegetable Victoria West Indies western wheat whole winds wool woollen Zealand
  Page 118 - I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink) of which I never had drank before.
  Page 41 - tis first on the scroll of fame, And who shall say it is not? Of the deathless ones who shine and live, In Arms, in Arts, or Song, The brightest the whole wide world can give, To that little land belong. 'Tis the star of earth, deny it who can, The island home of an Englishman.
  Appears in 17 books from 1839-1937
  Page 41 - For the lion-spirits that tread the deck Have carried the palm of the brave; And that flag may sink with a shot-torn wreck, But never float over a slave. Its honour is stainless, deny it who can ; And this is the flag of an Englishman. There's a heart that leaps with burning glow, The wronged and the weak to defend; And strikes as soon for a trampled foe, As it does for a soul-bound friend. It nurtures a deep and honest love...
  Page 42 - Tis a rich, rough gem, deny it who can; And this is the heart of an Englishman. The Briton may traverse the pole or the zone, And boldly claim his right; For he calls such a vast domain his own, That the sun never sets on his might. Let the haughty stranger seek to know The place of his home and birth; And a flush will pour from cheek to brow; While he tells his native earth. For a glorious charter, deny it who can. Is breathed in the words,
  Page 41 - And who shall aver it is not. Of the deathless ones who shine and live In arms, in arts, or song, The brightest the whole wide world can give To that little land belong. Tis the star of earth, deny it who can, The island home of an Englishman.
  Page 151 - He that rules the sea, rules the commerce of the world, and to him that rules the commerce of the world belongs the treasure of the world and indeed the world itself...
  Appears in 12 books from 1898-1969
  Page 29 - ... if the earth's axis were perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, and the excessive variation which would result if the axis were nearly parallel to that plane.
  Page 41 - There's a flag that waves o'er every sea, No matter when or where ; And to treat that flag as aught but the free Is more than the strongest dare. For the...
  Appears in 17 books from 1839-1938
  Page 57 - South, from the Atlantic on the East to the Pacific on the West, placed between Europe and Asia, and closely connected, —for oceans unite, not separate,—with both.
  Page 227 - Axis. — 1. The straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve. 2. A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged...
  Title A Brief Introduction to Commercial Geography: Being a Handbook of the Commercial Relationships of Great Britain, the Colonies and the United States