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... streams fed by countless lakes , penetrate the country in all its parts . There are in North America three great hydrographic basins corresponding to the three sides of the triangular land - mass- -the Atlantic , Pacific , and Arctic ...
... streams fed by countless lakes , penetrate the country in all its parts . There are in North America three great hydrographic basins corresponding to the three sides of the triangular land - mass- -the Atlantic , Pacific , and Arctic ...
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... streams . While the Nelson itself runs across the Laurentian plateau , and the Winnipeg and some smaller tributaries rise within the area of this plateau , its larger feeders come from the west , the Saskatchewan drawing its waters even ...
... streams . While the Nelson itself runs across the Laurentian plateau , and the Winnipeg and some smaller tributaries rise within the area of this plateau , its larger feeders come from the west , the Saskatchewan drawing its waters even ...
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... stream carries an enormous volume of water to the north . Athabasca and Great Slave Lakes , two of the largest of ... streams , and noting their relations to the four principal drainage basins just outlined , the manner 14 GEOGRAPHY ...
... stream carries an enormous volume of water to the north . Athabasca and Great Slave Lakes , two of the largest of ... streams , and noting their relations to the four principal drainage basins just outlined , the manner 14 GEOGRAPHY ...
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... streams and water - ways will become apparent . There is in Canada no wide unwatered or streamless area , nor any great inland basin into which rivers flow and disappear by evaporation . e . Climate . Were climate dependent on latitude ...
... streams and water - ways will become apparent . There is in Canada no wide unwatered or streamless area , nor any great inland basin into which rivers flow and disappear by evaporation . e . Climate . Were climate dependent on latitude ...
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... Stream of the Atlantic ( Fig . 1 ) . The eastern coast , on the con- trary , is chilled by a cold Arctic current coming from Davis Strait and the east coast of Greenland , which in the spring and summer brings much ice down with it ...
... Stream of the Atlantic ( Fig . 1 ) . The eastern coast , on the con- trary , is chilled by a cold Arctic current coming from Davis Strait and the east coast of Greenland , which in the spring and summer brings much ice down with it ...
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Acadian agricultural Arctic Assiniboia Atlantic Australia Bay of Fundy border British Columbia British North America Brunswick Canada Canadian Pacific Railway Cape centre chief chiefly climate coast coast-line College colony continent Cordillera cultivation district east eastern ELEMENTARY elevation English estuary exported extends Fcap feet fisheries flow forest French Gulf of St harbour height hills Hudson Bay important Indian industries inhabitants interior island known Lake Huron land largest latitude Laurentian plateau Lawrence Manitoba manufactures miles in length Montreal native navigable nearly Newfoundland north-west northern Nova Scotia Ocean Ontario Ottawa Pacific peninsula places plain population Port prairie principal produce Prof Professor province Quebec railway range region rise river rocks Rocky Mountains Saskatchewan settlements shores side slopes southern square miles Strait streams surface timber town trees tributaries valleys Vancouver Island vessels western whole width Winnipeg
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