Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON II. EXTENT OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE, ETC. How many square miles is the earth's surface supposed to contain ? About two hundred millions. What portion of this is land ? About one-fourth, or fifty millions. What portion water? About three-fourths, or one hundred and fifty millions. How is the land distributed ? There is about three times as much land in the Northern Hemisphere as in the Southern; and two and a half times as much in the Eastern as in the Western Hemisphere. How is the land naturally divided ? It is divided into different parts, of various forms, to which geographers have given the names of continent, island, peninsula, isthmus, cape, promontory, mountain, hill, plain, and valley. What are these divisions styled? The natural or physical divisions of the land area of the earth's surface. How is the water naturally divided? The water also is divided into parts, variously formed, which geographers have designated by the names ocean, sea, gulf, bay, strait, passage, sound, channel, lake, and river. What are these divisions called? The natural or physical divisions of the water area of the earth's surface. Why are these divisions styled natural!. Because they have not been made ly man, but have been formed by nature. What divisions of the earth's surface have been made by man ? Empires, kingdoms, states, cities, towns, villages,