An Introduction to Physical Geography 



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plains, beyond the Orinoco, are vast 

 forests, from which the natives get rub- 

 ber, tropical woods, and vanilla. There 

 are also gold diggings south of the Ori- 

 noco, which yielded over $600,000 for 

 export in 1900. 



Almost nothing is manufactured be- 

 yond the cheapest grades of goods. The 

 larger share of the imports come from 

 the United States — $3,271,000 worth in 



1901, consisting of flour, lard, hardware, 

 and cotton goods, on all of which a 

 heavy duty was levied. England and 

 Germany send the next largest amount 

 of goods. Venezuela sent in return to 

 the United States in igoi $6,645,000 

 worth of coffee, cacao, and skins, all en- 

 tering free of duty. The annual revenue 

 of Venezuela is about $7,500,000, ob- 

 tained mainly from customs duties. 



AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL 

 GEOGRAPHY* 



DURING the last few years the 

 general public has felt a deeper 

 interest in the facts of the 

 earth — in what the earth is and what it 

 hides — than it has probably ever expe- 



rienced before. The fearful upheavals 

 in Martinique, St Vincent, and Guate- 

 mala, attended by a general natural un- 

 rest throughout the globe, have aroused 

 a wide spread desire to understand what 



*An Introduction to Physical Geography. By Grove Karl Gilbert and Albert Perry Brigham. 

 With 263 illustrations. Pp.380. 5 j^ x 8 inches. New York : D. Appleton &Co. 1902. 



