From the Abstract of Statistics find the trade of the United States with each of these countries.
FOR COLLATERAL READING AND REFERENCE
Adams's New Empire—pp. 153–159.
Gibbins's History of Commerce—Book III, Chapters I and VIII.
CHAPTER XXVII
EUROPE—THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES AND SWITZERLAND
The Mediterranean states are peopled mainly by races whose social and economic development was moulded largely by the Roman occupation of the Mediterranean basin for a period of more than one thousand years. The occupations of the people have been shaped to a great extent by the slope of the land and by the mountain-ranges that long isolated them from the Germanic peoples north of the Alps.
France.—The position of France with respect to industrial development is fortunate. The North Sea coast faces the ports of Great Britain; the Atlantic ports are easily accessible to American centres of commerce; the Mediterranean ports command a very large part of the trade of that sea.