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tion of geographical progress, and who are ignorant of the progress 
already gained, that objection is made against the effort to bring 
every geographical fact under the explanation of natural processes. 
No one of active mind can look across our upland and. fail to gather 
increased pleasure and profit from understanding its history. No 
one who looks upon geography as the study of the earth in relation 
to man can contemplate the contrast between glaciated New Eng- 
land [or New York] and nonglaciated Carolina without inquiring 
into the meaning of the contrast: he might as well study the Sahara 
and the Sudan without asking the reason for the dryness of the 
one and the moisture of the other.” 
