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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... houses in this part of the town ; but now the county buildings , a court - house and jail , are there , three meeting - houses , and a great many dwelling- houses and stores . In this part of Cambridge the earth is composed of clay ...
... houses in this part of the town ; but now the county buildings , a court - house and jail , are there , three meeting - houses , and a great many dwelling- houses and stores . In this part of Cambridge the earth is composed of clay ...
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... dwelling - houses and stores . But houses and stores people are employed in making glass bottles ? How many bottles do they make in a day ? In what part of Cambridge is Cambridge Port ? How is it connected with Boston ? How long is the ...
... dwelling - houses and stores . But houses and stores people are employed in making glass bottles ? How many bottles do they make in a day ? In what part of Cambridge is Cambridge Port ? How is it connected with Boston ? How long is the ...
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... houses in Chelmsford . One of them , which is older than the other , is near the middle of the town , and there are a good many dwelling - houses around it . Near to this meeting- house there is a very pretty building for an academy ...
... houses in Chelmsford . One of them , which is older than the other , is near the middle of the town , and there are a good many dwelling - houses around it . Near to this meeting- house there is a very pretty building for an academy ...
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... dwelling - houses . There are two meeting - houses near the middle of the town , a court - house , a jail , and several stores . Dracut . The men , who live in Dracut , are the bridge ? What did the Americans do when the British began ...
... dwelling - houses . There are two meeting - houses near the middle of the town , a court - house , a jail , and several stores . Dracut . The men , who live in Dracut , are the bridge ? What did the Americans do when the British began ...
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... houses used for dwelling - houses . The other meeting - house is at the village called Saxonville . This village has the river in the town ? What damage does the river do when it overflows its banks ? How is the road built over the mead ...
... houses used for dwelling - houses . The other meeting - house is at the village called Saxonville . This village has the river in the town ? What damage does the river do when it overflows its banks ? How is the road built over the mead ...
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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...