How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 147
estone is very widelydistributed, but it is quarried chiefly in theMississippi valley. There are many limestonequarries near the city of Chicago. Joliet, notfar from Chicago, is nicknamed Stone City.^ Limestone is used for other purposes besides 130 HO\y WE ARE SHELTERED house-building. Bricks and… … Fig. 51. —A Limestone Quarry, Joliet, 111. also. This holds the particles together. Lime ismade by heating limestone in great ovens calledlimekilns. When I was a boy, school children did notuse notebooks very commonly. Instead, they 1 s^^K^^^^H -? v« L ,W^- .- ^^^^^HJ^B^^^H^B^^^^^^^^-…
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