Find an isthmus in the picture. How is a cape lifferent from a peninsula? Peninsulas have Peninsulas have apes upon them. Find them in the picture. Tell now the peninsulas in the picture differ from the slands.

A promontory is a high, rocky cape. Study and describe each of the land and water

orms in the picture. Go out directly after a rain nd find all of these forms, Find them on the nearst body of water. Model and sketch each. Bring n pictures of land and water forms. Find all of

hese forms in the world pictures and on the globe.

extent that some parts of it are always being disturbed by winds. Any dis turbance of its surface waters stretches out over a great distance. This is shown by the great variation in the height and in the more rapid movements of the waves as they come tumbling over each other upon the shore. (See page 92.)

While waves may be apparently

swinging backward and forward with little progress, their movement is always forward. They sometimes travel at a

PLANTING BEACH GRASS CAPE COD.

During a storm or high wind the water is lashed into great waves which sometimes rise thirty or forty feet. Such waves break upon the shores with tremendous force.

The continuous action of the restless sea, together with the grinding of one piece of rock upon another, break and wear the larger pieces into smaller and still smaller rounded fragments.

These water-worn rock fragments ar pebbles.

The waves wash the pebbles upor the beach, making a pebble-beach.

The continuous action of the water. and of one pebble upon another, wears the pebbles to sand and soil.

On sandy shores near shallow water this soil, together with the sand which

I. BATHING, NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I.
II. PROMENADE, BEACH AT CONEY ISLAND, N. Y.

Many people spend their summers at the seashore. Many large cities are on and near fine beaches. On hot days and evenings, crowds of city people with children go to the beach to get cool.

Do you know of any beach? If you do, tell about it. Do you know of any people who go to the seashore for the summer?

TIDES.-Another movement of the water of the ocean is called the TIDE. For a little more than six hours the water slowly rises on the beach, when it reaches HIGH TIDE. Then for another six hours it slowly falls to LOW TIDE.

How many times does the

of the tide? What effect has the high tide on beach in the picture below? What effect has low tide on the beach in the picture on the ner page? Note the seaweed that has been washed by the tide.

Sea food, such as oysters, clams, escallops, a crabs, are more easily procured during low tide

HARBORS.-The ocean has beconthe great thoroughfare for tra and travel. On its waters vesse laden with merchandise and peop from every country, pass to a fro. Under its waters the tee) graphic cable extends which cot nects the great cities of the world All vessels must anchor some arm of the ocean, wher they are protected from fierce winds and storms. In such la vens they can easily discharge and take

on

passengers, supplies, and freigh Such an arm is a harbor. The best har bors have deep water and moderate

HIGH TIDE, ENGLISH COAST.