QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY THE PUPIL. It will not be sufficient that the pupil for once is able to answer these questions; they ought to be put to him by his Instructor, repeatedly, from time to time, till the answers shall become as familiar to him, as the numbers of his Multiplication Table. 21. What is the Equator, or Equinoctial Line? What is a Hemisphere ? What is the Ecliptic? 22. 23. 24. What are the Tropics? 26. What is a Meridian? 27. What is a Degree? 28. What is the Latitude of any place? 29., What is the Longitude of any place? What is the Horizon ? 30. QUESTIONS ON THE MAP OF THE WORLD. 1. Which contains the most land, the Eastern, òr Western Hemisphere? 2. The Equator divides the globe into two hemispheres, viz. the NORTHERN and SOUTHERN; which of these contains the most land? 3. Where is it the two continents approach the nearest to each other? 4. Which extends the farthest south, Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope? 5. Which of the four general divisions of the earth is the largest? 6. How is America separated from Europe and Africa? 7. How is the Pacific Ocean situated with respect to Asia and America? 8. What sea lies between Europe and Africa ?-between Africa and Asia? 9. How is Africa united to the main continent of land? 10. How is Asia situated with respect to Europe? 11. How is Europe situated with respect to Africa? 12. How is Africa situated with respect to Asia? 13. How is North America situated with respect to Europe? 14. How is South America situated with respect to Africa? 16. 15. Which is the largest, North or South America? Which is the largest, South America, or Europe? 17. What two large bays are those in N. America? 18. Which is the broadest, Africa or South America: where crossed by the equator? 19. Which is the broadest, the Isthmus of Suez, or the Isthmus of Darien ? 20. How is New Holland situated, and what is its magnitude compared with Europe? 21. How is the Indian Ocean situated? 22. What large Island is that situated directly north of New Holland? 23. How many degrees is the equator from each pole? 24. How is Madagascar situated ?-St. Helena ? 25, Into what ocean does the Bay of Bengal open? 26. What part of South America is that called Terra Firma? 27. What part of N. America is that called Labrador? 28. How is the Gulf of Mexico situated?-What large island is that at the mouth of it? 29. In what Ocean are the Cape Verd Islands-the Azores ?-Madeira ?—and the Canary Islands? 30. Which of these groups of islands is the most northwardly ?-Which the most southwardly? 31. Are the Azores nearest to Europe, to Africa, or to America?-In what latitude are they situated? 32. In what zone are the Cape Verd Islands, and how are they situated with respect to the Azores? 33. What groups of islands are there in the Pacific Ocean? 34. How are the New Hebrides, the Friendly, the Society, and the Navigator's islands situated with respect · one group to the other? 35. What large islands are those situated on the equator? 36. What is the latitude of the island Owhyhee, where Capt. Cook lost his life, and to what group of islands does it belong? 37. Where is Tongataboo, a highly cultivated island, and in what latitude? 38. Of what does New Zealand consist, and what are the principal capes? 39. Near what parallel of south latitude is the island of Amsterdam? 40. 41. What is the latitude of the island of Desolation? What islands are there in the Indian Ocean? 42. Which is the largest island, Borneo or Madagascar? 43. In what zone is Nova Zembla? W Between what parallels of south latitude is the island New Holland situated? 45. Pole? What sea surrounds the North Pole ?-the South 46. Where is Van Dieman's Land? 47. 48. zone? Where is Endeavour Strait ? Does any part of Europe lie within the torrid 49. Where are the Straits of Gibralter? 50. Where is the isthmus of Darien? 51. What ocean flows between Asia and America? 52. Where is the sea of Japan, and in what latitude? 53. How is the island Newfoundland situated, and in what latitude? 54. How are the islands Cuba, Jamaica, and St. Domingo situated with respect to each other? 55. 56. How are the Falkland Islands situated? How is the most southern extremity of Asia situated with respect to the equator? 57. 58. 59. How are the Marquesas islands situated? How is Spitsbergen situated, and in what latitude? 60° In what zone is N. America chiefly situated?South America? 61. In what zone is Asia chiefly situated? 62. How are the Ladrone Isles situated, and in what latitude? 63. What isle is that contiguous to the Isle of France? 64. The tropic of Capricorn crosses one large island, and that of Cancer another; what are the names of these islands? 65. What isles are those situated directly south of the Ladrone Isles? 66. Where is new Caledonia, and in what latitude? 67. How are the Pelew islands situated with respect to the Caroline Isles ? 68. In what Ocean are New Ireland, New Britain, and Solomon's Island?-How are they situated with respect to each other? 69. How is Great Britain situated with respect to Europe? 70. Where is Bhering's Strait, and in what latitude? 71. Where and in what latitude is the island Otaheite ? 72. How is Norfolk Island situated with respect to New Zealand? 73. What sea is situated between Europe and Asia ? 74. Where are the Fox isles? 75. How are the Galapagos Isles situated? 76. Where are the Bahama isles, and in what latitude? 1. 2. QUESTIONS ON THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA. How is North America bounded? Which is the most northward, Baffin's or Hud son's Bay, and what is the latitude of each? 3. How do these bays communicate with the ocean? 4. What great lakes or inland seas are there in North America? 5. Where are the Straits of Bellisle ? 6. Where is the Gulf of California? 7. What sea, bays and gulf lie between North and South America? 8. How are the West India islands situated? 9. The principal, gulfs and bays in North America, counted together, are seven in number, (all without the United States) what are their names? 10. Five of the large lakes discharge their waters into the Atlantic; what are their names, and what is the name of the river by which they discharge their waters? 11. One of the large lakes discharges its waters into Hudson's Bay by two rivers; what is the name of the lake, and what are the names of the rivers? 12. Two of the large lakes discharge their waters into the Arctic sea; required the names of the lakes and of the river? 13. What rivers empty into the gulf of Mexico? 14. How is the bay of Campeachy situated? 15. Into what country does the bay of Honduras project? 16. What island is that which the tropic of Cancer just touches on the north? 17. What is the latitude of the island Bermuda, and what is its distance from the coast of the United States? 18. How are the gulfs of Mexico and California situated with respect to each other, and what is the distance between them? 19. What rivers empty into Hudson's Bay? 20. 21. Where is the river Columbia? Is Nova Scotia an island or a peninsula, and what way is it from Boston? 22. How is Quebec, the capital of Canada, situated, and what way is it from Boston? 23. Which is the greater distance, from Boston to Quebec, or from Boston to Halifax? 24. How is fort Chepawyan situated, where the British trade with the Indians for furs, and in what latitude? 25. How is New Brunswick bounded? G |