The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 96
aches the sea a big seaport has grownup. We have Cairo on the Nile, and NewOrleans on the Mississippi, and New York onthe Hudson; Buenos Aires, the metropolis ofthe southern hemisphere, on the Plata; Para,young, lusty and hopeful, at the mouthof the Amazon; Hamburg on the Elbe; andso on, in an… … leans, for in-stance, frommost points of\ iew, is builtin the mostunlikely place.The streets arelower than thesurface of theriver and onlya great dike THE HARBOR OF SAN FRANCISCO. q£ g^j-th kcCpS the big stream from sweeping the city off thecontinent of North America. The city ofNew Orleans stands…
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