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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES.—NO. 1.

FIRST LESSONS

IN

GEOGRAPHY;

OR,

INTRODUCTION TO "YOUTH'S MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY."

By JAMES MONTEITH.

1856.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL SERIES.

No. 1.—MONTEITH'S FIRST LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY, for Beginners.

No. 2.—MONTEITH'S YOUTH'S MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY, for Junior and Intermediate Classes.

No. 3.—McNALLY'S SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, for Advanced Classes in Schools, Academies, and Seminaries.

The above Books, which are written by Practical Teachers, constitute the most complete Geographical School Series extant; and they are so adapted to each other, that the learner advances from one to the other with satisfaction and success.

A.S. BARNES & CO.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, By JAMES MONTEITH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

PREFACE.

It is evident, that to secure a complete system of teaching Geography in our Schools, there should be at least three grades of Text-books; namely, Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced. As the necessity for a Geography more introductory in its character than those now in use has been long felt, the Author would respectfully solicit the notice of his fellow-teachers to this little work.

Its plan is such, that the subject is presented in the most simple form.

It treats of General Features, such as the locality and description of Continents, Countries, States, Rivers, Mountains, &c., without dwelling prematurely upon the minute details that embarrass the learner in his first effort.

The Exercises are arranged in Question and Answer.

The Maps are free from all meridians, parallels of latitude, and any superabundance of names; thereby giving a greater prominence to the general divisions of land and water.

CONTENTS.

DEFINITIONS

- Map of the Western Hemisphere
- Map of the Eastern Hemisphere
- Map of North America
- Map of the United States
- Map of the Eastern States
- Map of the Middle States

- Map of the Southern States
- Map of the Western States
- Map of South America
- Map of Europe
- Map of Asia
- Map of Africa

- History of North America
- History of the United States
- History of the Eastern States
- History of the Middle States
- History of the Southern States

- History of the Western States
- History of South America
- History of Europe
- History of Asia
- History of Africa

FIRST LESSONS

IN

GEOGRAPHY.

LESSON I.

Q. What is Geography?

A. A description of the Earth's surface.

Q. What is the Earth?

A. The planet or body on which we live.

Q. What is the shape of the Earth?

A. Round, like a ball.

Q. Of what is the Earth composed?

A. Land and Water.

LESSON II.

Q. What is a Continent?

A. The largest division of the land.

Q. How many Continents are there?

A. Two; the Eastern and the Western.

Q. On which Continent do we live?

A. On the Western Continent.

Q. What are the divisions of the Western Continent?

A. North America and South America.

Q. What are the divisions of the Eastern Continent?

A. Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Q. What is an Ocean?

A. The largest division of the water.

Q. How many Oceans are there?

A. Five; Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern or Antarctic, Northern or Arctic.

LESSON III.

Q. Which is the largest Ocean?

A. The Pacific Ocean.

Q. What is an Island?

A. A portion of land entirely surrounded by water.

Q. What is a Peninsula?

A. A portion of land almost surrounded by water.

Q. What is a Lake?

A. A body of water almost surrounded by land.

Q. What is an Isthmus?

A. A neck joining two larger portions of land.

Q. What is a Strait?

A. A passage connecting two larger bodies of water.

LESSON IV.

Q. What is a Cape?

A. A point of land extending into the water.

Q. What is a Mountain?

A. A vast elevation of land.

Q. What is a Hill?

A. A small elevation of land.

Q. What is a Volcano?

A. A mountain which sends out fire, smoke, and lava.

Q. What is a Valley?

A. The low land between hills or mountains.

Q. What is a Plain?

A. A level tract of land.

Q. What is a Desert?

A. A barren region of country.

LESSON V.

Q. What is a Sea?

A. The division of water, the next in size to an ocean.

Q. What is a Gulf or Bay?

A. A body of water extending into the land.

Q. What is a River?

A. A stream of water flowing through the land.

Q. By what are Rivers formed?

A. By Springs.

Q. What is a Spring?

A. Water flowing from the ground.

Q. What are Small Streams called?

A. Brooks and Creeks.

LESSON VI.

Q. Who governs an Empire?

A. An Emperor.

Q. Who governs a Kingdom?

A. A King or a Queen.

Q. Who governs a Republic?

A. Men elected by the People.

Q. Which is the largest Empire in the world?

A. Russia.

Q. Which is the largest Kingdom in the world?

A. Great Britain.

Q. Which is the largest Republic in the world?

A. The United States.

LESSON VII.

Q. What is a Map?

A. A picture of the whole, or a part, of the Earth's Surface.

Q. What are the directions on a Map?

A. Toward the top, North; toward the bottom, South; to the right, East; to the left, West.

Q. In what direction from the centre of the picture is the Island?

A. North.

Q. In what direction is the Volcano? The Cape?

Q. The Bay? The Lake? The Strait? The Mountains?

Q. The Isthmus?

Q. What is in the East? In the West? In the South? In the North? In the Northwest? In the Southeast? In the Northeast? In the Southwest?

LESSON VIII.

Q. In what Division of the Earth do we live?

A. In North America.

Q. What Division south of North America?

A. South America.

Q. When you look at the rising Sun, what Ocean is before you?

A. Atlantic Ocean.

Q. Where does the Sun rise?

A. In the East.

Q. Where, then, is the Atlantic Ocean?

A. East of America.

Q. When you look at the setting Sun, what Ocean is before you?

A. Pacific Ocean.

Q. Where does the Sun set?

A. In the West.

Q. Where is the Pacific Ocean?

A. West of America.

Q. What Ocean north of America?

A. Northern Ocean.

LESSON IX.

Q. What Ocean south of America?

A. Southern Ocean.

Q. What Isthmus joins South America to North America?

A. Isthmus of Darien.

Q. Which is the most northern Country of North America?

A. Greenland.

Q. What Bay west of Greenland?

A. Baffin's Bay

Q. Do you live in North America or in South America?

Q. What Ocean east of America?

Q. What Ocean west of America?

Q. Where is the Northern Ocean?

Q. Where is the Southern Ocean?

Q. In what Ocean are the Sandwich Islands?

Q. In what Ocean are the Cape Verd Islands?

LESSON X.

Q. What are the Divisions of the Eastern Continent?

A. Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Q. Which is the largest?

A. Asia.

Q. Which is the smallest?

A. Europe.

Q. Which is furthest to the right, or east?

A. Asia.

Q. Which is furthest south?

A. Africa.

Q. What Ocean east of Asia?

A. Pacific Ocean.

Q. What Ocean south of Asia?

A. Indian Ocean.

Q. What Ocean west of Africa?

A. Atlantic Ocean.

Q. What Sea south of Europe?

A. Mediterranean Sea.

LESSON XI

Q. What Sea east of Africa?

A. Red Sea.

Q. What Cape in the south of Africa?

A. Cape of Good Hope.

Q. What Division of the Earth is composed of Islands?

A. Oceanica.

Q. Which is the largest Island in the World?

A. Australia.

Q. What Oceans do you find on the Eastern Hemisphere?

Q. What Division between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?

Q. What Division west of Asia?

Q. What Division south of Europe?

Q. Between what Divisions is the Mediterranean Sea?

Q. Between what is the Red Sea?

Q. Where is the Cape of Good Hope?

LESSON XII.

Q. What three Oceans around North America?

A. Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific.

Q. What Country furthest north?

A. Greenland.

Q. What Country furthest south?

A. Central America.

Q. In what Country do we live?

A. In the United States.

Q. What Country north of the United States?

A. British America.

Q. What Country south of the United States?

A. Mexico.

Q. What Country in the northwest?

A. Russian America.

Q. What Peninsula in the south?

A. Yucatan.

LESSON XIII.

Q. Between what two Oceans is the United States?

A. Atlantic and Pacific.

Q. What Bay west of Greenland?

A. Baffin's Bay.

Q. What Bay in British America?

A. Hudson's Bay.

Q. What large Sea southeast of North America?

A. Caribbéan Sea.

Q. Which are the largest two Countries of North America?

Q. Between what two Countries is the United States?

Q. In what Country is Hudson's Bay?

Q. Between what two Countries is Baffin's Bay?

Q. What large Island southeast of the United States?

Q. Where is Cape Farewell?

LESSON XIV.

Q. What large Gulf south of the United States?

A. Gulf of Mexico.

Q. Where is the Gulf of Mexico?

A. South of the United States.

Q. What two great Rivers in the United States?

A. Mississippi and Missouri.

Q. What Mountains in the western part of N. America?

A. Rocky Mountains.

Q. Where are the Rocky Mountains?

A. In the western part of N. America

Q. What Island east of Greenland?

A. Iceland.

Q. Where is Iceland?

LESSON XV.

NORTH AMERICA.

Q. By whom was America discovered?

A. By Columbus; about 360 years ago.

Q. What kind of People did he find here?

A. Dark-colored Savages.

Q. What did Columbus name them?

A. Indians.

Q. After whom was America named?

A. A man named Americus.

Q. What can you say of the Northern part of N. America?

A. It is very cold.

Q. What of the Southern part of N. America?

A. It is very warm.

LESSON XVI.

Q. How many States are there? 31.

Q. How are they divided?

A. Into Eastern, Middle, Western, and Southern States.

Q. Which is the largest State?

A. Texas.

Q. Which is the smallest State?

A. Rhode Island.

Q. What State on the Pacific?

A. California.

Q. What State in the north, almost surrounded by Lakes?

A. Michigan.

Q. Which is the largest of these Lakes?

A. Lake Superior.

Q. What Lake east of Michigan?

A. Lake Huron.

Q. What Lake west of Michigan?

A. Lake Michigan.

Q. What River west of Texas?

A. Rio Grande.

LESSON XVII.

Q. What large River flows south into the Gulf of Mexico?

A. Mississippi River.

Q. What large Rivers flow into the Mississippi?

A. Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, and Red.

Q. What River between Texas and Mexico?

A. Rio Grande.

Q. What Ocean east of the United States?

Q. What Ocean west?

Q. What Country south?

Q. What Gulf south?

Q. In what State do you live?

Q. What States touch your State?

Q. Where is Lake Superior?

Q. What Lake in Utah?

Q. Into what does the Ohio flow?

LESSON XVIII.

Q. Which State is furthest northeast?

A. Maine.

Q. Where is Maine?

A. In the northeastern part of the United States.

Q. Which State is furthest south?

A. Florida.

Q. Between what Ocean and Gulf is Florida?

Q. What State is furthest west?

A. California.

Q. Where is California?

Q. What States touch the Mississippi River?

Q. What States touch the Gulf of Mexico?

Q. How many Territories are there?

A. Eight.

Q. Which is the largest Territory?

A. Nebraska.

LESSON XIX.

THE UNITED STATES.

Q. What are the people of the United States called?

A. Americans.

Q. Who governed this Country about 80 years ago?

A. The King of England.

Q. How did the Americans obtain their freedom?

A. By a war which lasted nearly eight years.

Q. What great man led the American army?

A. George Washington, who became the first President.

Q. How has this Country increased?

A. From 13 to 31 States.

Q. What troubles had the settlers of this Country?

A. Many were murdered by the Indians.

LESSON XX.

CAPITALS.

CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES,

Washington, on the Potomac River.

EASTERN STATES.

States. Capitals. Situation.

Maine, Augusta, on the Kennebec.

New Hampshire, Concord, on the Merrimac.

Vermont, Montpelier, on the Onion.

Massachusetts, Boston, on the Boston Harbor.

Rhode Island, Providence, on the Providence Bay.
Newport, on the Rhode Island.

Connecticut,* Hartford, on the Connecticut.
New Haven, on the New Haven Bay.

* kon-net'e-kut.

LESSON XXI.

MIDDLE STATES.

States. Capitals. Situation.

New York, Albany, on the Hudson.

New Jersey, Trenton, on the Delaware.

Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, on the Susquehanna.

Delaware, Dover, on the Jones' Creek.

LESSON XXII.

SOUTHERN STATES.

States. Capitals. Situation.

Maryland, Annapolis, on the Severn.

Virginia, Richmond, on the James.

North Carolina, Raleigh, near the Neuse.

South Carolina, Columbia, on the Congaree.

Georgia, Milledgeville, on the Oconee.

Florida, Tallahassee, Inland.

Alabama, Montgomery, on the Alabama.

Mississippi, Jackson, on the Pearl.

Louisiana, Baton Rouge,* on the Mississippi.

Texas, Austin, on the Colorado.

* bat' on-roozh.

LESSON XXIII.

WESTERN STATES.

States. Capitals. Situation.

Arkansas, Little Rock, on the Arkansas.

Tennessee, Nashville, on the Cumberland.

Kentucky, Frankfort, on the Kentucky.

Ohio, Columbus, on the Sciota.

Michigan, Lansing, on the Grand.

Indiana, Indianapolis, on the West Fork of the White.

Illinois, (oy) Springfield, near the Sangamon.*

Wisconsin, Madison, on the Fourth Lake.

Iowa, Iowa City, on the Iowa.

Missouri, Jefferson City, on the Missouri.

California, Sacramento, on the Sacramento.

* sang'ga-mon.

LESSON XXIV.

Q. How many Eastern States are there? A. Six.

Q. What two States north of Massachusetts?

A. New Hampshire and Vermont.

Q. What two States south of Massachusetts?

A. Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Q. What State west?

A. New York.

Q. What large River between Vermont and New Hampshire?

A. Connecticut River.

Q. Through what States does it flow?

A. Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Q. What Rivers in Maine?

A. Kennebec and Penobscot.

Q. What River in New Hampshire?

A. Merrimac River.

LESSON XXV.

Q. Through what other State does the Merrimac flow?

A. Massachusetts.

Q. What Mountains in Vermont?

A. Green Mountains.

Q. Where are the White Mountains?

A. In New Hampshire.

Q. What large Sound south of Connecticut?

A. Long Island Sound

Q. Name the Eastern States.

Q. Which is the largest?

Q. Which is the smallest?

Q. Where are the Green Mountains?

Q. What large River flows into Long Island Sound?

Q. What Cape in the eastern part of Massachusetts?

Q. What three Rivers flow into the Atlantic Ocean?

Q. Describe the Connecticut River.

LESSON XXVI.

Q. What Country north of the Eastern States?

A. Canada.

Q. What State west?

A. New York.

Q. What large Island south of Connecticut?

A. Long Island.

Q. Where is Long Island?

A. South of Connecticut.

Q. What Lake between Vermont and New York?

A. Lake Champlain.

Q. Where is Lake Champlain?

A. Between Vermont and New York.

LESSON XXVII.

EASTERN STATES.

Q. What are these six States together called?

A. New England.

Q. Who first came to New England?

A. People from England, called Puritans.

Q. For what are some of these States noted?

A. For Woolen and Cotton Manufactures.

Q. What is obtained from Maine?

A. Lumber.

Q. For what animals is Vermont noted?

A. For Sheep.

Q. Which is the largest City in New England?

A. Boston.

LESSON XXVIII.

Q. How many Middle States are there?

A. Four.

Q. Which is the largest?

A. New York.

Q. Which is next in size?

A. Pennsylvania.

Q. Which is the next?

A. New Jersey.

Q. Which is the smallest?

A. Delaware.

Q. What Country north of New York?

A. Canada.

Q. What two Lakes on the west?

A. Ontario and Erie.

Q. What two large Rivers in the eastern part of New York?

A. Hudson and Mohawk.

Q. What large River in the western part of New York?

A. Genesee River.

LESSON XXIX.

Q. What large River flows through Pennsylvania?

A. Susquehanna River.

Q. What large River flows northeast from Lake Ontario?

A. St. Lawrence River.

Q. What Mountains in New York?

A. Catskill and Highlands.

Q. What large City in New York?

A. New York.

Q. Name the Middle States.

Q. What States south of New York?

Q. What States east of New York?

Q. Where is Lake Erie?

Q. Where is Lake Ontario?

Q. Where is the Hudson River?

Q. Where is the St. Lawrence?

Q. Into what Lake does the Genesee River flow?

Q. What Lake northeast of New York?

LESSON XXX.

Q. What River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey?

A. Delaware River.

Q. Where is the Delaware River?

A. Between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Q. What Bay between New Jersey and Delaware?

A. Delaware Bay.

Q. Where is the Delaware Bay?

A. Between New Jersey and Delaware.

Q. What large Bay in Maryland?

A. Chesapeake Bay.

Q. What Mountains in Pennsylvania?

A. Alleghany and Blue Ridge.

LESSON XXXI.

THE MIDDLE STATES.

Q. For what are the Middle States noted?

A. For Canals and Railroads.

Q. What Waterfall between Lakes Erie and Ontario?

A. Niagara Falls.

Q. What do we get from Pennsylvania?

A. Coal and Iron.

Q. What does the word Pennsylvania mean?

A. Penn's Woods.

Q. Who was William Penn?

A. A Quaker from England, who was good and just to the Indians.

Q. Which is the largest City in Pennsylvania?

A. Philadelphia.

LESSON XXXII.

Q. How many Southern States are there?

A. Ten.

Q. Which is the largest?

A. Texas.

Q. Which is furthest south?

A. Florida.

Q. What division of land is Florida?

A. A Peninsula.

Q. What Island south of Florida?

A. Cuba.

Q. What States north of Florida?

A. Georgia and Alabama.

Q. What River touches Virginia?

A. Ohio River.

Q. What River flows through the northern part of Alabama?

A. Tennessee River.

Q. Into what River does the Tennessee flow?

A. Into the Ohio River.

LESSON XXXIII.

Q. What State east of Maryland?

A. Delaware.

Q. What State west of North Carolina?

A. Tennessee.

Q. What River between South Carolina and Georgia?

A. Savannah River.

Q. Into what does it flow?

A. Into the Atlantic Ocean.

Q. Name the Southern States.

Q. Name the States that touch the Atlantic Ocean.

Q. Name the States that touch the Gulf of Mexico.

Q. What two Southern States touch the Mississippi River?

Q. Between what Ocean and Gulf is Florida?

Q. Where is Cape Sable?

LESSON XXXIV.

Q. What Mountains in the Southern States?

A. Cumberland, Alleghany, and Blue Ridge.

Q. What large Island south of Florida?

A. Cuba.

Q. Where is Cuba?

A. South of Florida.

Q. What Strait between Florida and Cuba?

A. Florida Strait.

Q. Where is Florida Strait?

A. Between Florida and Cuba.

Q. What Ocean and Gulf does it connect?

A. Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

LESSON XXXV.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Q. What is the Climate of the Southern States?

A. Warm.

Q. What do the Planters of the Southern States own?

A. Large plantations cultivated by slaves.

Q. What are raised on these plantations?

A. Sugar, Tobacco, and Cotton.

Q. From what State does most of the Sugar come?

A. Louisiana.

Q. What Presidents were born in Virginia?

A. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, and Taylor.

Q. How are wild horses caught?

A. By means of a leather rope called a Lasso.

LESSON XXXVI.

Q. How many Western States are there?

A. Eleven.

Q. What two are furthest north?

A. Michigan and Wisconsin.

Q. What three lie on the west side of the Mississippi River?

A. Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas.

Q. What three lie on the north side of the Ohio River?

A. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.

Q. What two south of the Ohio?

A. Kentucky and Tennessee.

Q. What Lake north of Michigan?

A. Lake Superior.

Q. What Lake east of Michigan?

A. Lake Huron.

Q. What Lake west of Michigan?

A. Lake Michigan.

Q. What Lake north of Ohio?

A. Lake Erie.

LESSON XXXVII.

Q. What Western State does not appear on this map?

A. California.

Q. What four great Rivers flow through the Western States?

A. Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Q. In what direction do nearly all the Rivers in the Western States flow?

A. Toward the Mississippi.

Q. Name the Western States.

Q. What four large Lakes touch the Western States?

Q. Name the largest four Rivers in the Western States.

Q. What River in Ohio?

Q. What River between Indiana and Illinois?

Q. What States south of Tennessee?

Q. What State east of Kentucky?

LESSON XXXVIII.

Q. What River in Wisconsin?

A. Wisconsin River.

Q. What River in Iowa?

A. Iowa River.

Q. What River flows through Missouri?

A. Missouri River.

Q. What River flows through Arkansas?

A. Arkansas River.

Q. What River flows through Tennessee?

A. Tennessee River.

Q. What River in Illinois?

A. Illinois River.

Q. Where do they all empty?

A. All except the Tennessee empty into the Mississippi.

LESSON XXXIX.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Q. What grow in the Western States?

A. Corn, Wheat, Rye, and Fruit.

Q. For what are the Western States noted?

A. For fine Rivers and Steamboats.

Q. Which of the Western States is noted for Gold?

A. California.

Q. Where do the Indians of the United States mostly live?

A. In the Western Territories.

Q. What are many of the Indians?

A. Good farmers and quiet people.

Q. In what are some of them very expert?

A. In conducting travellers past dangerous places.

LESSON XL.

Q. What natural division of land is South America?

A. A Peninsula.

Q. What Division of the Earth is north of South America?

A. North America.

Q. What Ocean east?

A. Atlantic Ocean.

Q. What Ocean west?

A. Pacific Ocean.

Q. What Sea north?

A. Caribbean Sea.

Q. Which is the largest River in South America?

A. Amazon River.

Q. How long is the Amazon?

A. Four thousand miles.

Q. What River further north than the Amazon?

A. Orinoco River.

LESSON XLI

Q. What River in the southeast?

A. La Plata River.

Q. Into what do these Rivers flow?

A. Into the Atlantic Ocean.

Q. What great chain of Mountains in the west?

A. Andes Mountains.

Q. Which is the largest Country of South America?

A. Brazil.

Q. Between what two Oceans is South America?

Q. Where is the Caribbean Sea?

Q. Where are the West Indies?

Q. Where are the Andes?

Q. What three large Rivers in South America?

Q. Name all the Countries of South America.

Q. What three in the north?

LESSON XLII.

Q. What Isthmus joins North and South America?

A. Isthmus of Darien.

Q. What Islands north of South America?

A. West Indies.

Q. Which is the most southern Country of South America?

A. Patagonia.

Q. What Strait south of Patagonia?

A. Strait of Magellan.

Q. What is the southern Cape of South America?

A. Cape Horn.

Q. What two Oceans meet there?

A. Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

LESSON XLIII.

SOUTH AMERICA.

Q. For what is South America noted?

A. For the largest rivers and longest mountain-chain in the world.

Q. What can you say of the Andes Mountains?

A. The tops of some are continually covered with ice and snow; while at the foot of the mountains, the heat is very great.

Q. What careful animal is used in crossing the Mountains?

A. The Mule.

Q. What if the mule should lose his foothold?

A. Both mule and rider might fall and perish.

Q. What take place in South America?

A. Earthquakes.

LESSON XLIV.

Q. What Ocean north of Europe?

A. Arctic Ocean.

Q. What Ocean west of Europe?

A. Atlantic Ocean.

Q. What Sea south of Europe?

A. Mediterranean Sea.

Q. What is the Mediterranean Sea?

A. The largest Sea in the world.

Q. What Bay west of France?

A. Bay of Biscay.

Q. Which is the largest country of Europe?

A. Russia.

Q. Which is the smallest?

A. Switzerland.

Q. What two Countries touch Russia on the southwest?

A. Austria and Turkey.

Q. What Country south of Turkey?

A. Greece.

LESSON XLV.

Q. What two Countries west of the North Sea?

A. England and Scotland.

Q. What Country west of England?

A. Ireland.

Q. What Country south of England?

A. France.

Q. What Country south of France?

A. Spain.

Q. What two Oceans touch Europe?

Q. What five large Seas do you find on the map of Europe?

Q. What four Rivers?

Q. What Strait connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic?

Q. What Cape in the north of Europe?

Q. What Gulf east of Italy?

Q. Where is the White Sea?

LESSON XLVI.

Q. What Sea north of Prussia?

A. Baltic Sea.

Q. What large Sea south of Russia?

A. Black Sea.

Q. What large River runs through Austria and Turkey?

A. Danube River.

Q. What Mountains between France and Spain?

A. Pyrenees Mountains.

Q. What large Island west of Norway?

A. Iceland.

Q. What Island south of Italy?

A. Sicily.

LESSON XLVII.

EUROPE.

Q. Which, are the most powerful Countries in Europe?

A. Great Britain, France, and Russia.

Q. What great General, a few years ago, led the most powerful army in the world?

A. Napoleon Bonaparte.

Q. Where was he finally overthrown?

A. At the Battle of Waterloo, in the year 1815.

Q. What brave man was a Swiss?

A. William Tell.

Q. What remarkable building in Italy?

A. The Leaning Tower.

Q. What law in Prussia about attending school?

A. Every boy and girl is obliged to attend school regularly.

Q. What can you say of the northern part of Europe?

A. It is so cold, that there is good sleighing all the year.

LESSON XLVIII

Q. What can you say of the size of Asia?

A. It is the largest Grand Division of the Earth.

Q. What Ocean north of Asia?

A. Arctic Ocean.

Q. What Ocean east?

A. Pacific Ocean.

Q. What Ocean south?

A. Indian Ocean.

Q. What Sea south of Asia?

A. Arabian Sea.

Q. What Bay south of Asia?

A. Bay of Bengal.

Q. What four Seas east of Asia?

A. China, Yellow, Japan and Ochotsk.

Q. What Sea between Arabia and Africa?

A. Red Sea

LESSON XLIX.

Q. What Division of the Earth is west of Asia?

A. Europe.

Q. What Division southwest?

A. Africa.

Q. What large Country in the northern part of Asia?

A. Siberia.

Q. What Empire in the east?

A. Chinese Empire.

Q. What three Oceans touch Asia?

Q. What two Seas between Asia and Europe?

Q. What Sea between Asia and Africa

Q. What two countries of Asia are furthest north?

Q. Between what two Countries is the Persian Gulf?

Q. What Cape in the north of Asia?

LESSON L.

Q. What country in the southeastern part of the Chinese Empire?

A. China.

Q. What Country between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal?

A. Hindoostan.

Q. What Country in Asia is furthest southwest?

A. Arabia.

Q. What Mountains between Asia and Europe?

A. Ural Mountains.

Q. What large Island south of China Sea?

A. Borneo.

Q. What large Island southeast of Borneo?

A. Australia.

LESSON LI.

ASIA.

Q. What Division of the Earth was first inhabited?

A. Asia.

Q. Who first lived in Asia?

A. Adam and Eve.

Q. What is the color of the Asiatics?

A. Yellow.

Q. What do many worship?

A. Idols.

Q. For what purpose did the Chinese build the Great Wall?

A. To defend themselves from their enemies.

Q. What animal is very useful in crossing the Deserts?

A. The Camel.

LESSON LII.

Q. What Division of land is Africa?

A. A Peninsula.

Q. Between what two Oceans is Africa?

A. Atlantic and Indian.

Q. What Division of the Earth north of Africa 2

A. Europe.

Q. What Sea north of Africa?

A. Mediterranean Sea.

Q. What Division of the Earth northeast of Africa?

A. Asia.

Q. What Sea east of Africa?

A. Red Sea.

Q. What Gulf west of Africa?

A. Gulf of Guinea.

Q. What large Island southeast of Africa?

A. Madagascar.

LESSON LIII.

Q. What Country in the northeastern part of Africa?

A. Egypt.

Q. What Country south of Egypt?

A. Nubia.

Q. What Country south of Nubia?

A. Abyssinia.

Q. Which are the largest two Rivers in Africa?

A. Nile and Niger

Q. With what Ocean is the Mediterranean Sea connected?

Q. With what Ocean is the Red Sea connected?

Q. What three Countries of Africa touch the Red Sea?

Q. What large River flows into the Mediterranean Sea?

Q. What large River flows into the Gulf of Guinea?

Q. On which side of Africa is Guinea?

LESSON LIV.

Q. What Desert in the northern part of Africa?

A. Sahara, or Great Desert.

Q. What Mountains in the centre?

A. Mountains of the Moon.

Q. What Isthmus joins Africa with Asia?

A. Isthmus of Suez.

Q. What Country in Europe is nearest Africa?

A. Spain.

Q. What Strait between Africa and Spain?

A. Strait of Gibraltar.

Q. What Cape in the southern part of Africa?

A. Cape of Good Hope.

LESSON LV.

Q. What is Africa?

A. The warmest Division of the Earth.

Q. What animals are found in Africa?

A. Elephants, Lions, and Leopards.

Q. What dangerous reptiles in Africa?

A. Serpents and Crocodiles.

Q. What is a great part of Africa?

A. A Desert, or vast Sandy Plain.

Q. How do men cross the Desert?

A. In large companies, called Caravans.

Q. What storms sometimes overtake Caravans?

A. Storms of scorching sand, raised by the wind.

RECAPITULATION.

OCEANS.

Where is?

Pacific Ocean West of America.

Atlantic Ocean East of America.

Northern Ocean North of North America.

Southern Ocean South of South America.

Indian Ocean South of Asia.

RIVERS.

Where is?

Amazon In the northern part of S. America.

Mississippi In the United States.

Missouri In the United States.

Ohio In the United States.

Arkansas In the United States.

Connecticut In the United States.

Hudson In the Eastern States.

Susquehanna Runs through Pennsylvania.

Delaware Between Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Volga In Russia.

Danube Runs through Austria and Turkey.

Nile In the northeastern part of Africa.

SEAS

Where is?

Mediterranean Sea Between Europe and Africa.

Black and Caspian Between Europe and Asia.

North Sea West of Europe.

Baltic Sea West of Russia.

Caribbean Sea North of South America.

Arabian Sea South of Asia.

China Sea South of China.

Red Sea Between Africa and Asia.

GULFS AND BAYS

Where is?

Baffin's Bay West of Greenland.

Hudson's Bay In British America.

Gulf of Mexico South of the United States.

Bay of Biscay West of France.

Gulf of Guinea West of Africa.

Chesapeake Bay In Maryland.

Delaware Bay Between New Jersey and Delaware.

LAKES

Where is?

Lake Superior North of the United States.

Lake Michigan In the northern part of the United States.

Lake Erie North of the United States.

Lake Ontario North of the United States.

MOUNTAINS.

Where are?

Rocky In the western part of N. America.

Andes In the western part of S. America.

Alleghany In the eastern part of the United States.

Green In Vermont.

White In New Hampshire.

Ural Between Europe and Asia.

Alps North of Italy.

Pyrenees Between France and Spain.

ISLANDS.

Where is?

Australia Southeast of Asia.

Iceland East of Greenland.

Cuba South of the United States.

Madagascar Southeast of Africa.

Nova Zembla North of Russia.

Sicily South of Italy.

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