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North America

noun

A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama.

The nations of the North American continent collectively.

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... whether Canada should be retained or given back to the French. The chief argument for surrendering the province was ominous of the future. "A neighbor that keeps us in some awe is not always the worst of neighbors.... If we acquire all Canada, we shall soon find North America itself too powerful and too populous to be governed by us at a distance." To this timid reasoning, which was attributed to William Burke, Franklin replied in a pamphlet, discussing the whole question with ...

— Benjamin Franklin • Paul Elmer More

... before Columbus discovered San Salvador, the red men (or Indians as they are usually called) roamed over all the great continent of North America, and, having no knowledge of iron as a metal, they were forced to make of stone or bone all their weapons, hunting and household implements. From this fact they are called, when referring to those early times, a stone-age people, ...

— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... little by little the national character of the latter became entirely obliterated. But to trace now the precise history of this gradual change would be as impossible as it will be one day to follow the progress of civilization in the woods of North America. ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... inform the villager that North America was once under water, only the tops of the highest mountains extending above the one great ocean, like so many islands, and that then the ocean currents carried their warmth to the Pole, the Tigara man ...

— Short Sketches from Oldest America • John Driggs

... which converted almost the whole geological world to the doctrine of uniformitarianism, and may be considered the foundation of modern geology. Lyell died in London on February 22, 1875. Besides his great work, he also published "The Elements of Geology," "The Antiquity of Man," "Travels in North America," and "The Student's ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

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