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"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"I like geography. I like to know where places are."
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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
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"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."
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"The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress."
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"Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand."
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"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads."
Development
"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."
Government
"In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government."
Government
"The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California."
Discovery
"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive."
Progress
"Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution."
Transportation
"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history."
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"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad."
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