Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part two. The field of transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

Means of Transportation 155 I Ellsworth Huntington Fig. 123. The earliest form of cart had solid wheels, and the solid-wheeled cart is seen today in Turkey. Persia, China, and other parts of Asia. The horse is largely limited to the temperate zone, not only because brisk commerce and active agriculture require him there, but because in tropical regions he readily contracts diseases, and his thin skin makes the insect pests especially annoying. Of the hundred and ten million horses in the world, the United States has nearly one fourth and Eu- rope about one half. Asiatic Russia has ten times as many as Africa, although its area is much smaller and the population only a sixth as great. What few horses there are in Africa live largely in the more temperate regions of the Mediterranean coast and South Africa. Some cities where animals are important. Although race horses bring the highest prices, some having been sold for much more than one hundred thousand dollars, the most useful animals are the heavier horses used for hauling loads and for farm work. Moscow was for- merly noted for huge, sleek animals, which, though spirited, are also gentle. Equally fine horses are seen in Glasgow and in some of our own cities, like Chicago. In the northern United States the horse is the only animal commonly used for transportation in our cities; but in the South the mule team is common. More interesting, because less familiar, are the caravans of donkeys or camels that crowd the narrow streets of oriental cities, like Damas- cus, Bagdad, Algiers, and Tashkent. When a caravan of camels from

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