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Rh stream of water 100 feet high. Mount Hec'-la is the most noted volcano.



The climate of Iceland is far milder than that of Greenland. The people fish, raise sheep, and gather eider-down and Iceland moss. They export wool, salted fish, Iceland moss, and eiderdown.

Reykjavik (rāk'-yah-vik), the chief town, is only a small hamlet.

4. Eskimos.—In Greenland and all along the Arctic shores—in Alaska and in northern Labrador—are the curious people called Eskimos.



1. Mexico.—Leaving the snow huts of the Eskimos, let us now visit the warm countries of our continent.



First of all let us glance at Mexico, our nearest neighbor on the south. Here it is seldom cold enough for ice to be formed, except high up among the mountains.

2. Surface and Climate.—Along the coast is a strip of lowland. Most of the country, however, is a great plateau, about a mile high.

The lowland is the hot region. The plateau is the temperate region.



The climate of the plateau is delightful. No fires are needed to keep one's house warm, roses and violets bloom, and green peas are in season all the year. Most of the people of Mexico live here.

3. The agricultural products of the plateau are very different from those of the lowland.