Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

by Jewett C. Gilson

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CONTENTS

PART I WEALTH OF THE WORLD'S WASTE PLACES

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Introduction			[1]
CHAPTER
I.		The Wealth of the Arid Southwest	[4]
II.		The Grand Canyon of the Colorado	[27]
III.		Yellowstone Park	[35]
IV.		Two Prehistoric Cemeteries—Giant Reptiles and Giant Trees	[51]
V.		Death Valley	[58]
VI.		The Mineral Wealth of the Andes	[67]
VII.		The Czar's Greater Domain	[82]
VIII.		The Mystic Highlands of Asia	[97]
IX.		The Primal Home of the Saracen	[105]
X.		The Sahara	[115]
XI.		Polar Regions—the Conquest of the Arctic	[128]
XII.		Polar Regions—Antarctica	[147]
XIII.		Iceland, the Maid of the North	[160]
XIV.		Greenland	[170]
XV.		Where the Two Great Oceans Meet	[175]
XVI.		Reclaimable Swamp Regions	[183]
XVII.		Strange Rock Formations—Natural Bridges	[190]
XVIII.		Strange Rock Formations—Table Mountain of California	[195]
XIX.		Strange Rock Formations—Gibraltar	[199]
XX.		The Baku Oil Fields	[206]
XXI.		The South African Diamond Fields	[211]

PART II OCEANIA

XXII.		The Islands of the Pacific	[226]
XXIII.		Australia	[233]
XXIV.		The Great Barrier Reef	[244]
XXV.		The Gold Fields of Australia	[250]
XXVI.		Tasmania	[258]
XXVII.		New Zealand	[262]
XXVIII.		Samoa and Fiji	[270]
XXIX.		The Hawaiian Islands	[277]
XXX.		Guam	[285]
XXXI.		The Philippine Islands	[289]
XXXII.		The Dutch East Indies—Java	[301]
XXXIII.		The Dutch East Indies—Sumatra and Celebes	[311]
XXXIV.		Borneo and Papua	[319]

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Illustrations

The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge of Southern Utah	[Frontispiece]
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Map of Islands of the Pacific	Facing [1]
Mohave Desert, California. Buzzards' Roost	[6]
Gila monsters	[9]
A giant cactus in Arizona	[12]
The Roosevelt Dam, Arizona, showing south bridge and spillway	[17]
Shoshone Project, Wyoming	[25]
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado	[29]
Grand View Trail	[33]
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, looking down canyon from Grand Point	[37]
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Mammoth Hot Springs, Summit Pools	[45]
The Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Beehive Geyser	[47]
The Brontosaurus	[53]
The Allosaurus	[55]
Twenty mule borax team	[61]
The Oroya Railroad, Peru, showing four sections of the road	[73]
Llamas resting	[77]
Silver-smelting works at Cassapalca, on the Oroya Railroad, Peru, 13,600 feet high	[79]
Fishing for sturgeon through the ice of the Ural River. Catching the material for caviare	[83]
Gathering salt at the mouth of the Ural River	[87]
Driving over the tundra in winter	[91]
Train on the steppes of Russia	[95]
Dunkar Spiti, Himalaya Mountains, India	[99]
The yak not only serves as a beast of burden, but furnishes milk, butter, and meat	[103]
Khaibar Pass, the gateway to India	[107]
A group of Arabs with their dromedaries	[111]
On the sands of the desert	[117]
A caravan crossing the desert on the road to Jaffa	[125]
Peary's ship, the Roosevelt	[137]
Commander Robert E. Peary and three of his eskimo dogs on the Roosevelt	[141]
Musk ox	[144]
An antarctic summer scene	[149]
The penguin defies the cold	[153]
Street in Reykjavik, Iceland	[163]
North Cape, Iceland	[167]
Stone igloos on the bleak coast of Greenland	[171]
A large iceberg	[173]
A group of Eskimos in south Greenland	[174]
The Straits of Magellan. Cape Pilar is the extreme western end	[177]
Fuegians	[179]
The Everglades of Florida	[184]
Group of Seminole Indians in the Everglades of Florida	[187]
The Devil's Slide, Weber Canyon, Utah	[191]
Witch Rocks, near Echo Canyon, Utah	[193]
This strong and impregnable place is the Rock of Gibraltar, and the city nestling at its base, Gibraltar	[201]
Landing-place for commerce on the Caspian Sea	[209]
Open workings of the diamond mine, Kimberley	[219]
Sorting gravel for diamonds in the Kimberley Mine	[223]
A Malay girl	[229]
A Malay boy	[231]
A giant fig-tree, 140 feet in circumference	[235]
A mother kangaroo with a young kangaroo in her pocket	[237]
An Australian emeu	[239]
Homestead and station in Young District, Australia	[243]
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the most remarkable animal structure in the world	[247]
Melbourne is the largest city of australia and contains nearly half a million people	[257]
Maori pa, or village	[263]
The Petrifying Geyser, New Zealand	[265]
Native canoe, Fiji Islands	[275]
General view of Volcano House, Kilauea, Hawaii	[279]
A lake of white-hot molten lava. the volcano of Mauna-Loá, Hawaii	[281]
Native ploughing in rice-field, Guam. One may find rice-farms as skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or China	[287]
The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along	[291]
The harbor of the city. scene on the Pasig River, Manila	[295]
Extracting indigo in Ilocos Province, Philippine Islands	[297]
Manila hemp as it is brought in from the country	[299]
A breadfruit tree in Java	[303]
Coffee-drying in Java	[309]
Natives in the jungle, Sumatra	[313]
A jungle, scene in sumatra	[316]

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