Major and Minor Keys: Critical Essays on Philippine Fiction and Poetry. This item is unavailable.Major and Minor Keys: Critical Essays on Philippine Fiction and Poetry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...where the slaughtered hogs are turned into pork, bacon, hams, and lard. The forest-trees must be changed into lumber; so there are many saw-mills. The iron and the copper ores must be smelted--that is, melted in such a way as to make them pure--and there are furnaces for that. There are also other manufactures of almost every description. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Indianapolis, Quincy, Detroit, and Milwaukee are the chief manufacturing cities. In addition to the commercial, manufacturing, and railroad centres that have been named, Springfield and Zanesville, in Ohio; Lafayette, in Indiana; Aurora, Joliet, and Rockford, in Illinois; Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and La Crosse, in Wisconsin; and Jackson, East Saginaw, Kalamazoo, and Bay City, in Michigan, are important places. Rivers.--The chief rivers are the Scioto, Maumee Maw-mee, and Miami Mi-am-i, in Ohio; the Wabash, in Indiana; the Illinois, in Illinois; the Wisconsin, in Wisconsin; and the Grand and the Detroit, in Michigan. To be Recited. Name the North Central States. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Why are they so called? Because they are in the northern part of the Great Central Plain. What is said of their surface and soil? Most of their surface consists of prairie lands; and the soil is deep, and very rich. What kind of climate have these states? The winters are long and severe in the north, but the summers are hot. As much rain falls as is needful. What advantages for commerce have these states? They have the Ohio on the south, the Mississippi on the west, the Great Lakes on the north, and many navigable rivers in the interior. The railroads are also very numerous. What is said of Cincinnati? It is the chief commercial port of Ohio, and has a population of more than...