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Map of the Philippine Islands, 23 x 36 inches Supplement
Map illustrating the obstacles to land transportation which rendered early commerce between Occident and Orient extremely difficult 400
Diagram showing the growth of the world during the nineteenth century 402
Diagram. A comparison of the Orient and the remainder of the world in area, population, railroads, telegraphs, and commerce 403
The successive advances of Russia to the Pacific 404
Transportation in China. Camel train outside of the Pekin wall 405
Military gate of Pekin wall 405
An illustration of the enormous development of the commerce of Japan resulting from the construction of railways 406
The network of railroads covering India today and the resultant vast increase in her commerce 407
Railways constructed and proposed in China 408
Telegraph lines of China in 1904 409
A comparison of Japan, India, and China today 410
Elephants with howdahs (Bangkok) which have been eclipsed in popularity by the American trolley car on opposite page 412
Bangkok tramway 413
The awakening of the East. A school for girls, Bangkok 414
A group of Chinese watching an American railway engineer 415
Transportation in China 416.
On one of the interior canals of China 417
Transportation in China. A country cart 418
Transportation in China 419
The air and water currents of the Pacific 420
Japanese peasants watching a wrestling contest 433
Map of the Panama Canal (25 x 33 inches) Supplement
Unfinished cuts of the world's greatest canal 451
Rock cut at Bas Obispo 452
The Culebra Cut, looking north 453
Dredge at Gargona 454
A steam shovel at work in the Culebra Cut 458
Panama soldiers at a village on the Bayano River, guarding the pass on the route from Colombia 461
Landing pigs in the harbor of Panama City 465
Indian "dug-outs" on the Chagres River bringing bananas, the chief export of Panama, to Gatun 466
Diagram showing yearly amount of rainfall in inches on the Panama Isthmus 467
Map of the region of the Panama Canal ( 24 x 33 inches) Supplement
Paikent, a sand-buried city 499
A sand dune advancing across the desert 500
A mosque of medieval Samarkand 501
Folds in the limestone in the Sugun Valley west of Shor Kul, looking west 502
Limestone gorge of the western Kichik Alai 503
The Kirghiz in the Alia Valley 504
Map showing number of children under 5 years of age to 1,000 females 15 to 49 years of age, 1890 506
Map showing number of children under 5 years of age to 1,000 females 15 to 49 years of age, 1900 507
