GREAT KANAWHA 



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GREAT LAKES 



important. The city is also a distributing cen- 

 ter, and is an important shipping point for 

 wool. 



The most notable among a number of hand- 

 some modern buildings are the Federal build- 

 ing, constructed in 1912 at a cost of $237,000; 

 the Rainbow Hotel, erected in 1910; the Park 

 Hotel, built in 1915, and a $150,000 Y. M. C. A. 

 building. Besides these the city has the Cas- 

 cade County courthouse and the passenger 

 stations of the Great Northern and the Chi- 

 cago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul railways. Ursu- 

 line Academy, a business college and a Car- 

 negie Library supplement the public school 

 system. AJ&. 



GREAT KANAWHA, kanaw'wa, an impor- 

 tant tributary of the Ohio River, and one of 

 the chief commercial waterways of the state 

 of West Virginia. It rises in North Carolina, 



Erie and Ontario. The small Lake Saint Clair 

 lies between Huron and Erie, but its size ren- 

 ders it too insignificant to be classed among 

 the "great" lakes. With the exception of 

 Lake Michigan, which is entirely within the 

 United States, they lie between that country 

 on the south and the Dominion of Canada 

 on the north, and form the headwaters of the 

 Saint Lawrence River system. By this stream 

 they are drained into the Atlantic Ocean. The 

 deepest channel of the lakes forms the bound- 

 ary line between the United States and Can- 

 ada. The great valley in which they lie is 

 situated on the southern slope of the Height 

 of Land, which extends from ocean to ocean 

 across the North American continent; the land 

 to the north of the rim of their basin slopes 

 toward Hudson Bay, and that to the south 

 toward the Gulf of Mexico. 



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31,200 square miles. 22,450 square miles. Z3,8QQ square miles. 9,960 square miles 7,240 square miles. ' 



THE GREAT LAKES 

 Elevations above sea level, total depths and areas. 



between the Blue Ridge and the Iron moun- 

 tains. It is known as the New River in North 

 Carolina, from which it flows in a north- 

 easterly direction through part of Virginia and 

 West Virginia, and after traversing a portion 

 of the Alleghany Mountains joins the Ohio 

 River at Point Pleasant. Its principal tribu- 

 tary is the Gauley River, which it receives in 

 Fayette County, West Virginia. The river is 

 navigable from the Ohio to within a few miles 

 of the mouth of the Gauley River, a distance of 

 about 100 miles, and carries much local com- 

 merce. Its total length is 450 miles. It flows 

 through thriving districts, the principal city on 

 its banks being Charleston, the capital of West 

 Virginia. 



GREAT LAKES, THE, five great inland 

 seas of North America, surpassing in area any 

 other series of fresh-water lakes in the world 

 and comprising one of the most important 

 commercial waterways on the globe. They are 

 known as Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, 



Size and Elevation. The Great Lakes have 

 a combined area of about 94,000 square miles, 

 which is more than 27,000 square miles in excess 

 of the total area of the six New England 

 states and a little less than that of Oregon. 

 Their area is about one thirty-ninth that of 

 the Dominion of Canada, and nearly one- 

 seventh that of the province of Quebec. 

 Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, 

 could be placed on this area seventy-five times, 

 and there would still be over 1,000 square 

 miles to spare. The area of England, Scot- 

 land and Wales combined is not quite as great 

 as that of these five fresh-water seas. Lake 

 Superior, the largest, is a little smaller than 

 Maine and a little larger than South Caro- 

 lina. Next in size is Lake Huron, which is 

 almost as large as West Virginia. Lake Michi- 

 gan has an area equal to that of Maryland, 

 Massachusetts and Delaware combined. Then 

 comes Lake Erie, the most shallow of the five, 

 which is about the size of Vermont. Lake 



