LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Map showing award of Alaska Boundary Tribunal (12 x 12 inches) Supplement 



Map showing boundary in Portland canal 5 



Map showing arid, semi-arid, and humid regions of the United States 16 



Map showing mean annual rainfall in the United States 16 



Map showing arid regions of the world 17 



Map showing location of vacant public lands 18 



Map showing location of forests and woodlands of the West 19 



Map of irrigated and irrigable lands ' 20 



Map showing approximate location and extent of open range in the United States 21 



An abandoned house on an unirrigated plain 22 



Top of Torrence Falls, Gunnison Canyon 23 



Floating through Gunnison Channel, using a rubber bed as a raft 24 



He floated, paddled and waded 400 miles down the stream, under the most delightful 



climate of the United States 25 



Red Canyon of the Colorado River. ... 26 



The present water supply system of Phoenix, Arizona 27 



Snow crystals . 3 I- 36 



Marcus Baker, portrait. . 41 



Sand dune overwhelming a forest, Cape Henry, Virginia 43 



Sand dune overwhelming a house at Manatee, Michigan 44 



Sand dune encroaching on railroad, near The Dalles, Oregon 45 



Sand dunes controlled by a covering of sand hedges, on the Kurische Nehrung, north- 

 eastern Prussia 46 



Diagram showing the average number of persons to a private family in each state and 



territory of the United States in 1900 51 



Diagram showing the average number of persons in a family in the United States, 1850 



to 1900 52 



A mother kangaroo with a young kangaroo in her pocket 53 



Japanese tea party 54 



A wedding at Colon 59 



Grinding grain, Panama ... 62 



Low tide in the harbor of Panama .... 65 



One of the hospital buildings on the hill back of Panama 66 



A market scene in Panama 69 



Cutting the canal through morasses, Chagres River region 71 



The Culebra cut 72 



Pile of beets by railroad track awaiting shipment, Minnesota Sugar Company, St Louis 



Park, Minn So 



Hoeing beets near Ames, Nebraska 81 



An abandoned colony of flamingo nests, Bahama Islands 82 



A sandstorm in the desert . 85 



In the heart of the painted desert S6 



On the Nile, above Cairo 88 



War map of Manchuria and Korea (36 x 42 inches) Supplement 



An Ilocano boy on one of the small and wiry Filipino ponies 92 



Tagalog girl selling mangoes in Manila, Luzon 93 



Boac, from the walled church 94 



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