Excerpt from Elementary Geography: Designed for Primary and Intermediate Classes The Indians and hunters who catch animals for their fur live a great deal in the forests. Often there are no roads to guide them. Sometimes it is very cloudy, and they cannot see the sun. They are said to have a very curious way of finding out then where the north is. Moss grows best in shady places, and generally grows thickest on the north side of the trunks of trees, because the sun does not shine much on that side. The hunters and Indians, therefore, look to see which side of the trees is covered with moss. They know that the mossy side is the north side. The moss is to them as good a friend as the compass needle to the sailor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.