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Draw the North line of Middlesex County. Draw the East line. The South. The West. How is the county bounded on the North? East? South? West?

Draw Merrimack River as it passes through Middlesex. What factories are there upon or near it? Through what towns does it pass? What falls are there upon the Merrimack in this county?

[Remark. If the pupil does not recollect in this review the falls, mills, or factories on any river, let him observe on the map through what towns the river passes and turn to the descriptions of those towns in his Geography.]

What is the height of Pawtucket Falls and what do you recollect of them? What canal has been constructed round them? Draw it. Draw the canals that convey the water to the factories in Lowell. Mark the places of the factories. Draw the brooks which run into the Merrimack from the North. Which is Beaver Brook?

Draw Nashua River. Where and into what does it empty? Draw Nissitissit River. Draw Squanicook River? Through what towns does it flow? What mills and factories are there upon this river. Draw Mulpus River.

Draw Salmon Brook. Draw Stony Brook. What is there near the mouth of Stony Brook ?

Draw Assabet River. What mills and factories are there upon it?

Draw Sudbury River. What mills and factories are there upon it? Where do the Assabet and Sudbury Rivers meet? Draw Concord River. Through what towns does it flow? What falls, mills, or factories are there upon it? Into what does it empty?

Draw Shawshine River. Into what town does it flow from Middlesex County? In what towns does it rise? Draw Ipswich River. Where does it leave the county?

Draw Mystic River. Where does it empty?

Draw Charles River. Does this river lie wholly in the county of Middlesex? What other county contains a part of its course? What falls, mills, and factories are there upon this river in Middlesex county? Mark their several places on the river. What is the height of Newton Lower Falls? Draw all the brooks, which flow into Charles River from the North. Which of these is Stony Brook?

Draw the course of the Middlesex Canal. at the extremities of this canal? How is the water? Through what towns does it pass? the plan of this canal? What did it cost? been built?

What towns are

canal filled with Who first started How long has it

Draw any ponds you can recollect in the county and name them and the towns in which they are situated as you draw them. Are there many ponds in the county? What is found in them?

What is the surface of the County? In what parts of it are the most uneven lands?

What towns in the county border upon the sea? Mark the place of Cambridge. How is Cambridge connected with Boston? How many principal villages are there in Cambridge? What public institution is there in old Cambridge? What public buildings are there at Lechmere's Point? What manufactures are carried on in this village? Mark the position of Charlestown. What do you recollect of the number of people in the town? What battle in the revolution was fought here? Relate the circumstances of the battle of Bunker Hill. What do you recollect of the Monument now building here? How is Charlestown connected with Boston? How is it connected with Chelsea?

Mark the position of Concord. Which way is it from Cambridge? Of whom was the land of this town originally bought? Why was it called Concord? What event in the revolution happened here ? Tell what you recollect of the march of the British troops from Boston to Concord, April 19, 1775. At

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what town did the British stop on their way to Concord? Describe the battle of Lexington. Which way is Lexington from Concord?

What towns in the county have academies? places, and name them as you mark them.

Mark their

Which way is Groton from Concord? Which way is Framingham from Concord? Mark its place. Which way is it

from Cambridge?

In what part of the county is Ashby? Which way is it from Cambridge?

What town in the county lies farthest south? Mark its place. Which way is it from Concord? Which way is it from Cambridge? Which way is it from Ashby?

On which side of Merrimack River is Dracut? In what part of the county is Dracut? Which way is it from Concord? Which is the most easterly town in the county? Mark the position of Waltham ? From what town was Waltham separated? Which way is Waltham from Concord? In what part of the county is Tyngsborough? What do you recollect of the first English trader who resided here? Which way is Tyngsborough from Concord?

What towns in the county are most distinguished for manufactures? Mark the place of Lowell. What do you recollect of the rapidity with which the factories make cloth?

Where is Reading? Which way is it from Concord? What is manufactured at Reading?

Mark the position of Brighton. Which way is it from Concord? What do you recollect of the cattle-fairs at Brighton?

By whom was this county inhabited before white people came to live in it? What were the names of the principal tribes of Indians, and where did they live? What was the disposition of the Indians towards the white people? When they were hostile, what did they do? In what towns did they attack the white people?

Mark the place of the battle with the Indians in Sudbury, and tell what you recollect of it.

How many towns are there in Middlesex County? What three towns have the largest number of people in them? What three towns have the smallest number of people in them?

What is the whole number of people in the county? How many counties in the state have more people in them than Middlesex? How many senators does this county send to the General Court. How many representatives may it send?

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GLOSSARY

EXPLAINING THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER DIFFICULT TERMS AS THEY ARE USED IN THIS BOOK.

Accommodate. To oblige; to make easy or convenient to

others.

Agricultural. Connected with the cultivation of the ground. Ammunition. Powder and balls, or shot.

Ancient. Old; very old.

Angling. Fishing.

Appropriate. Fit; proper for the purpose for which it was designed.

Aqueduct. Something built of wood or stone to convey water from one place to another.

Arms. Cannon, guns, swords, or other weapons used in

war.

Army. A great number of soldiers who are prepared to fight.

Ascend. To go up or rise up. We ascend a hill when we walk to the top of it. Smoke ascends when it rises out of a chimney.

Assemble. Come together.

Assume. To take as one's own.

Asylum. Any place of retirement and safety.

Attack. To fall upon with the intention to injure or kill. Benevolent. Wishing well towards others and generally doing well for them.

Besieged. A town is besieged when enemies place themselves round it and will not let the people come out.

Blacksmiths. Those who work upon iron, and shoe horses and oxen.