Describe the face of the country.

What is said of the climate?

What is said of the soil and productions?

Which are the principal rivers?

Which are the chief cities?

What religion do the inhabitants profess?

What is the form of government?

What is the length, breadth, square miles, and population?
QUESTIONS ON THE MAP, (CAUBUL.)

Where is the city of Caubul situated? Heraut? Candahar? Bulkh? Peshawere? Cashmere?

What city belongs to the 2nd class? What cities belong to the 3d class?

What part of the boundary is formed by the middle branch of the Indus? By the Oxus?

Boundaries.

BELOOCHISTAN.

Bounded north by Caubul; east by Hindoostan; south by the Indian Ocean; and west by Persia.

Face of the country. The northern part is mountainous, but along the sea coast low and level.

Climate. The climate in the northern part is pleasant and healthy, but hot and unhealthy along the sea coast.

Cities. The principal cities are Kulat and Bunpoor.

Religion. The inhabitants are principally Mahometans.

Government. The government is monarchical, but the khans or chiefs are only nominally subject to the king.

Length 700 miles, breadth 600: square miles, 176,000. Population, 3,000,000.

QUESTIONS.

How is Beloochistan bounded?

Describe the face of the country.

What is said of the climate?

Which are the principal cities?

What is the religion and government?

What is the length, breadth, square miles, and population?

QUESTIONS ON THE MAP, (BELOOCHISTAN) Where is Kulat situated? Bunpoor? Sarawan? Gundava? Kedge? Bayla? Bunothe?

Boundaries.-Bounded north by Asiatic Russia; east by Chinese Tartary; south by Persia and Caubul; and west by the Caspian Sea and Ural river.

Climate The climate of Independent Tartary is generally pleasant and healthy.

Face of the country.-The face of the country in the north is level, but mountainous in the southern part.

Seas. The seas are the Caspian and Aral, the waters of which are salt.

Rivers. The principal rivers are the Oxus or Jihon, Sihon, and Ural.

Soil and Productions.-The soil is generally fertile, and produces fruits and pasturage. The Tartars pay little attention to the cultivation of the soil; their chief occupation being to attend

their flocks of cattle, of which they possess great numbers.

Cities. The principal cities are Samarsand, Bokhaura, and Khieva.

Religion. Mahometanism is the prevailing religion.

Government. The inhabitants of Independent Tartary are generally in tribes, who live in tents, and remove from place to place with their flocks: each tribe being subject to its khan or chief. Length 1200 miles, breadth 900: square miles, 1,000,000. Population, 3,500,000.

QUESTIONS.

How is Independent Tartary bounded?

What is said of the climate?

Describe the face of the country.

Which are the principal rivers and seas?

What is said of the soil and productions?

Which are the principal cities?

What is the religion and government?

What is the length, breadth, square miles, and population?

QUESTIONS ON THE MAP, (IND. TARTARY.)

Where is Samarsand situated?

Kojund? Andegan? Lokman?

Bokhaura? Khieva?

In what part of Independent Tartary is the Sea of Aral? Caspian Sea?

Where does the river Oxus empty? Ural?

CHINESE EMPIRE.

Boundaries.-Bounded north by Asiatic Russia; east by the ocean; south by India; and west by Independent Tartary.

The Chinese empire consists of three grand divisions: China, Chinese Tartary, and Thibet. Length 3000 miles, breadth 1500 square miles, 6,000,000. Population, 300,000,000.

Boundaries. Bounded north by the great wall, which separates it from Chinese Tartary; east by the Yellow and China Seas; south by the empire of Tonkin; and west by the Birman empire and Thibet.

The Peninsula of Corea is governed by a king, tributary to the emperor of China.

Climate. The climate of the north of China is cold in winter, and temperate in summer. The climate of the southern part, in summer, is very

warm.

Face of the country.-The face of the country is agreeably diversified by mountains and hills, and intersected in every direction by rivers and canals.

Minerals.-The minerals of China are gold, silver, iron, copper, and precious stones.

Great Wall.-The great wall of China, built for the purpose of preventing the incursions of the Tartars, is 1500 miles long, sufficiently broad

for several persons to ride abreast on the top, and is carried over lofty mountains, and broad rivers. Seas. The seas contiguous to China are the Yellow and China Seas.

Rivers. The principal rivers are the Yangtse Kiang, Hoang Ho, and Pekiang.

Islands. The islands belonging to China are Formosa, Hainan, and the Loo Choo islands.

Soil and Productions.-The soil of China is very fertile, and well cultivated. The productions are grain, and a great variety of fruits, and this is the country from which Europe and America are sup plied with tea.

Manufactures. The Chinese display great ingenuity in various manufactures, particularly in porcelain, silks, cotton, and a variety of ornamental articles.

Cities. The cities of China are very numerous and large; the most considerable are Pekin, the capital, Nankin, Canton, Singan, and Hangtchefou.

Religion. The Chinese are Pagans. They worship the images of departed worthies, particularly that of Confucius, the founder of their religion.

Government.-The emperor is an absolute monarch; but as he considers his subjects as his children, the government is generally well administered.

Length 1300 miles, breadth 1000: square miles, 1,300,000. Population, 280,000,000.

QUESTIONS.

How is the Chinese empire bounded?

Name the three grand divisions of the Chinese empire.
What is the length, breadth, square miles, and population?
How is China bounded?

What is said of the Corea?
What is said of the climate?

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