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eastern ridge is continued in the double range of the Green Mountains to 

 Gaspe Point in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Branches extended as high as 

 Baffin's Bay. The highest point in the chain is Black Mountain, 6476 feet. 

 Next to this are Mount Tahawus, or Marcy, 5344 feet ; and Mount Washington, 



Capes. 1. In South America : Point Salinas, to the "north ; Cape Boque, 

 or Point Toira, in Brazil, the most eastern point ; Cape Forward, the most 

 .southern point of the main land ; Cape Horn, the southernmost point of 

 America, on the island I'Hermite : Cape Blanco in Peru. 2. North America : 

 «, on the Pacific; Cape Corrientes in Mexico. Cape St. Lucas, the southern 

 point of Lower California ; Cape Mendocino, Cape Gregory, Cape Lookout, 

 (Jape Flattery, Cape Newenham, and Cape Prince of Wales, h. In the Arctic 

 Ocean : Cape Barrow, Cape Dalhousie, Cape Bathurst, Cape Parry ; Point 

 Turnagain, Cape Franklin : Cape Liverpool, Cape York, c, In the Atlantic 

 Ocean : Cape Farewell, the southern point of Greenland ; Cape Charles in 

 Labrador ; Cape Baze in Newfoundland ; Cape May, Cape Henlopen, Cape 

 llatteras, Cape Lookout, Cape Fear ; Cape Sable, the southern point of 

 Florida ; Cape Catoche, the northern point of Yucatan. 



Among the Plains of America may be mentioned the immense Pampas oi 

 Brazil, especially those on the western bank of the La Plata, extending from 

 20^ to 40" south latitude, and abounding in salt and saltpetre : 2, the wooded 

 plains (Selvas) of the Amazon, from 4° north latitude to 15° south latitude ; 

 3, the grass-covered Llanos of the Oronoco ; 4, the Prairies of the Mississippi, 

 nearly as large as the whole of Europe, and partly covered with high grasses ; 

 5, the plains of Canada. 



Rivers. I. Those of South America emptying into the Atlantic Ocean : 

 1. the La Plata, arising by the confluence of the Paraguay, the Parana, and 

 the L^ruiruav, 1920 miles lon<^: 2. St. Francisco in Brazil, 1400 miles ; 3, the 

 Amazon, or Maranhon, in Brazil, 3080 miles long, traversing the whole 

 breadth of South America, and receiving in its course above sixty considera- 

 ble rivers ; it is from 4000 feet to tAvelve miles wide (forty-eight at the mouth 

 of its long arm, and twenty at that of the south) ; 4, the Oronoco, 1200 miles 

 long, emptying into the ocean by forty arms : 5, the Magdalena in New 

 Grenada, 800 miles long. 



11. In North America. A. Emptying into the Atlantic Ocean : 1, the 

 *K\o del Norte, or Rio Grande ; 2, the Mississippi, 2896 miles long from the 

 Gulf of Mexico to its source above Itasca Lake, and 3610 miles from the 

 mouth to the head of the Missouri, thus forming the longest river in the world ; 

 *5, the Alabama ; 4, the Apalachicola : 5, the Suwanne, all emptying into the 

 Gulf of Mexico ; 6, the St, John's ; 7, the Altamaha ; 8, the Savannah ; 9, 

 the Cape Fear; 10, the Roanoke; 11, the James; 12, the Potomac; 13, 

 the Susquehanna ; 14, the Delaware ; 15, the Hudson ; 16, the Connecticut ; 

 17, the Kennebec ; 18, the Penobscot ; 19, the St. Lawrence. Numerous 

 rivers of considerable size empty into Hudson's Bay. as Nelson, Churchill, 

 &c. 



B. Into the Arctic Ocean there empty Back's, or Great Fish River, the 

 Coppermine, and the Mackenzie, 

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