PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Primary GeographyHave your pupils collect useful stones of as many kinds as you can. Be sure to have samples of stones such as are used for making rice mills and cane mills and such as are used for making buildings. Rice mills are often made of a stone called basalt. Cane mills are usually made of granite. Granite is a foreign stone. It is used for pavements in Manila. Marble is sometimes used for building houses and sometimes for mak ing tops of tables and bureaus. Try to get specimens of different stones used for making lime or cement. Also get specimens of stones used for sharpening tools. Get samples of coal of as many kinds as possible. Do not forget to label each sample to tell what it is and where it came from.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,