America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.