A Geography of Middlesex County: For Young Children : Embracing 1. a Short Typographical and Historical Sketch of Every Town, 2. a General View of the County, and the Employments of the People, 3. a Glossary, Explaining the Geographical and Other Difficult TermsHilliard and Brown, 1830 - 106 páginas |
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... carry them to Boston . times merchants who live in the neighbouring towns buy them , and employ men to butcher them and put the beef in barrels with salt . Then they send the barrels of beef off in vessels a great distance to be sold ...
... carry them to Boston . times merchants who live in the neighbouring towns buy them , and employ men to butcher them and put the beef in barrels with salt . Then they send the barrels of beef off in vessels a great distance to be sold ...
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... carry goods to other How is the United States ' Navy Yard enclosed ? What does it contain ? What will the dry dock cost when it is finished ? What may it be used for ? Where does the Middlesex Canal join the water of the sea ? What is ...
... carry goods to other How is the United States ' Navy Yard enclosed ? What does it contain ? What will the dry dock cost when it is finished ? What may it be used for ? Where does the Middlesex Canal join the water of the sea ? What is ...
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... carry them in a wagon drawn by horses . A great many of the large stones in Chelmsford have been split into pieces and carried to Boston on the canal to build houses and stores with . These stones are called granite , and when they are ...
... carry them in a wagon drawn by horses . A great many of the large stones in Chelmsford have been split into pieces and carried to Boston on the canal to build houses and stores with . These stones are called granite , and when they are ...
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... carried off a great part of it to safe places , where they could not find it . The Americans began now to assemble from Concord and from other towns with their guns to drive back their enemies . Near a bridge over the river the British ...
... carried off a great part of it to safe places , where they could not find it . The Americans began now to assemble from Concord and from other towns with their guns to drive back their enemies . Near a bridge over the river the British ...
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... carried on wagons drawn by horses . The dwelling - houses in the town are some of them very beautiful . There are a great many stores , in which are kept for sale all kinds of goods . The town has in it five meeting - houses , some of ...
... carried on wagons drawn by horses . The dwelling - houses in the town are some of them very beautiful . There are a great many stores , in which are kept for sale all kinds of goods . The town has in it five meeting - houses , some of ...
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academy Acton Americans ancient town Ashby Assabet River battle beautiful Billerica boats borders Boston bounded North brick bridge Brighton British soldiers buildings built Bunker Hill called Cambridge Port cattle Charles River Charlestown Chelmsford cloth Concord River cotton county of Middlesex crops cultivation distance Dracut Draw the brooks Draw the river Draw the shape East Sudbury employed empty farmers farms feet fired Framingham Groton Harvard College Holliston Hopkinton houses ing-house inhabitants killed Lechmere's Point Lexington Littleton live Lowell Malden manufacture Marlborough Massachusetts Medford meeting-house stands Merrimack River middle Middlesex Canal passes Middlesex County mile mills and factories Mystic River Nashua River Natick neighbouring towns Newton Nisitissit Nissitissit River Pawtucket Canal Pawtucket Falls ponds prison raise river passes River rise river runs road sent Shakers Shawshine River side small town South stone streams Sudbury River things town bounded Tyngsborough village Waltham West wood Worcester County
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Página v - ... of all other subjects of education, to which their attention may be simultaneously or subse quently directed. iar illustration the meaning of a map, and inform him that the top is north, the bottom south, the right hand east, and the left hand west. Let him find on the map the town or the village, where he resides, and observe carefully its shape. its ponds, its rivers, and its hills or mountains. All these he is to draw from the map upon his slate or small black board. and to draw them over...
Página ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned " j and also to an act, entitled " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ' An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,'...
Página vi - ... mentioned in the book, as mills, or factories, ponds, streams, hills, or mountains. For recitations a large black board should be used at least three feet wide and three and a half feet long. This should be so placed that the pupil standing before it, may have his face to the north ; when, of course, his right hand will be to the east, his back to the south, and his lelt hand to the west.
Página ii - AM of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Authors, in the words following, to wit...
Página vi - If the class consists of several, let one be directed to draw the northern line of the town boundary. Another may be invited to criticise the execution, and then another may give his opinion. It may then with advantage be submitted to the judgment of the whole class, that any one who can detect an inaccuracy, may expose it. Let the eastern boundary now be drawn and subjected to the same critical examination and amendment ; and so of the other lines. A member of the class may then name the towns on...
Página vii - ... adjoining towns, according to their difficulty. At reciting this second lesson, the shape of the town or towns may be drawn upon a variety of scales. This exercise will be found to be exceedingly useful, as a severe discipline of the mind is involved in producing accurate proportions. And the whole class should be kept constantly on the alert, in judging of the truth of the proportions between the several lines drawn by each one of them. When greater ease has been acquired in drawing, and several...
Página v - ... quently directed. iar illustration the meaning of a map, and inform him that the top is north, the bottom south, the right hand east, and the left hand west. Let him find on the map the town or the village, where he resides, and observe carefully its shape. its ponds, its rivers, and its hills or mountains. All these he is to draw from the map upon his slate or small black board. and to draw them over and over again upon a variety of scales, till he can do it accurately from his memory and conceptions,...
Página vii - ... before that is to them chronology. Having thus completed the pupil's own town, the next exercise may be one or more of the adjoining towns, according to their difficulty. At reciting this second lesson, the shape of the town or towns may be drawn upon a variety of scales. This exercise will be found to be exceedingly useful, as a severe discipline of the mind is involved in producing accurate proportions. And the whole class should be kept constantly on the alert, in judging of the truth of the...
Página ii - Hendec, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of ji book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit :
Página 70 - There are some good farms however in the town, and the soil is generally good for fruit-trees of all kinds, which are common in this...