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9. The Isthmus of Panama connects South with North America. This isthmus is an independent Republic.



10. West Indies.—Let us take a steamship and go from Central America north across the Caribbean sea. We shall come to the West Indies, a number of islands that are part of North America. We study these last, but they are the part of America which Christopher Columbus visited first, and which Europeans first settled.



11. In the interior of the large islands are