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coast which has more recently been depressed in the 

 Chesapeake Bay region, and by the depressed and slightly 

 fiorded coast of northern New England. On the eastern 

 side of the United States a broad coastal plain has been 



formed which has no 

 counterpart on the west. 

 148. Influence of Coast 

 Conditions upon Inhabit- 

 ants. All natural fea- 

 tures have a greater or 

 less influence upon the 

 inhabitants of the earth, 

 but perhaps none has so 

 directly and obviously 

 influenced man's activi- 

 ties as has the kind of 

 coast on which he lives. 

 Europe, with its harbor- 

 full and Africa with its 

 almost harbor-less coasts 

 are in striking contrast 

 to each other. This 

 difference between the 

 inducements to travel 

 and commerce which 

 the two continents 

 afford is one of the 

 factors in producing 

 the marked difference 

 in progress attained by the people of the two continents. 

 They stand to-day as types on the one hand of economic 

 progress and on the other of stagnation. 



The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Greeks, the 

 English and the other great nations of the world have 





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