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COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY

A Book for High Schools
Commercial Courses, and
Business Colleges

by

JACQUES W. REDWAY, F.R.G.S.

Author of "A Series of Geographies," "An Elementary
Physical Geography," "The New Basis of Geography"







Charles Scribner's Sons
New York ... 1907

Copyright, 1903, by
Jacques W. Redway




PREFACE


The quiet industrial struggle through which the United States passed
during the last decade of the nineteenth centu