BY ROSWELL C. SMITH, HARTFORD: DANIEL BURGESS & CO. AND SPALDING AND STORRS. Sold by Booksellers throughout the United States. PART FIRST is intended for young beginners: PART SECOND for older pupils: PART THIRD for those considerably advanced in the study. The book contains some pictures or small maps, with questions referring to them; these the young learner should be made to understand thoroughly, before he takes the Atlas. The questions on the Atlas in the First Part may be recited, at first, with the Atlas before the learner; after which, and before he begins Part Second, let him review Part First, and make it so familiar that he can recite it without the map. Those who commence with Part Second should do the same. It is a good practice, and one which is recommended by many experienced Teachers, to require the learner, as he progresses, to review his former lesson; or, at least, to have some fixed day of every week on which to review the lessons of the previous week. And if the young learner should do both, he would be the gainer by the practice, not only in Geography, but in every other department of learning. The celebrated Jacotot, of the Productive School, went still farther: "he would have scholars repeat often, not merely the lesson of the preceding day, or even week, but of every thing previously committed to memory. Nothing is omitted;" adding, "were it not for constant repetition we might even forget our own names, as we frequently do those of strangers ;" and in fact, we often do forget our own ages from this very cause. Aware of the perplexity incident to frequent changes in the same book, the author was reluctant to alter any portion of his work but on a careful examination of each part, several alterations occurred which would, it was thought, render the work, as a whole, more SIMPLE, COMPREHENSIVE, and SYSTEMATIC. The work is now to take a uniform and permanent char acter. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by W. MARSHALL & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by W. MARSHALL & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Case Tiffany & Burnham, Printers, Q. What is a Spring? 1. A Spring is the place from which the water first flows out of the ground. Q. What do Springs appear to form 2. Brooks, Rivulets, &c. Q. What are these? 3. Small streams of water. Q. What do such small streams form when united ? 4. Rivers. Q. What then are Rivers? 5. Rivers are large streams of water. Q. What is the Source of a river? 6. The place from which it first flows from the ground: as, the Springs on the left. Q. What is a branch of a river? 7. A smaller River flowing into a larger one. Q. What is the Course of a River? 8. The direction in which it runs. Q. Is the Course of the River which you see in the picture, towards the Springs or from them? Q. What is the Mouth of a River? 9. The place where it flows into some other collection of water. M310592 Q. Into what does the River, in the picture on the first page, appear to flow? 10. Into the Lake below. Q. What is a Lake? A CASCADE. 11. A Lake is a large body of fresh water, mostly surrounded by land. Q. What are small Lakes called? 12. Ponds. Q. When standing water is mixed with earth and mud, what is it called? 13. A Marsh, Bog, Fen, Swamp or tract of low, moist ground. Q. When small streams of water flow down steep places, what are they called? 14. Cascades, or waterfalls. Q. What are these steep places called? 15. Precipices. Q. When large streams of water flow down (precipices, what are they called? 16. Cataracts. Q. When the water of a Lake is salt, what is it called? 17. A Sea. ! Q. What does a Sea appear to be? 18. A large body of water mostly surrounded by land. The water is salt, which makes the difference between it and a Lake. Q. What do those little black spots which you see in the picture of the sea represent? 19. Islands. Q. What are Islands? 20. They are small bodies of land entirely surrounded by water. Q. What is that part of the Sea called which has a number of islands in it? [See the name in the picture.] 2 21. A-0. [These are the first and last letters of the word Archipelago, which is the answer to the last question.] Q. What then is an Archipelago? 22. An Archipelago is a Sea interspersed with many islands. Q. What is that large body of water on the left of the Sea called? [See he picture.] G-f. What then is a Gulf? 23. A gulf is a part of the Sea extending far into the land. Q. What is that body of water on the right of the Sea called? E-y. What then is a Bay? 24. A Bay is a part of the Sea extending into the land, the entrance being generally the widest part. Q What are small Bays called? 25. Creeks, Coves, Ports and Armlets. Q. What prevents the Sea in the picture from being entirely surrounded by land? The S-t. What then is a Strait? 26. It is a narrow passage of water leading from one Sea or Bay into another. Q. A Channel resembles a Strait; will you describe a Channel! 27. A Channel is a passage of water wider than a Strait. Q When a Strait is shallow, or not deep, what is it called? 28. A Sound. Q. What then is a Sound? 29. A Strait so shallow that it may be sounded, Q. What do you mean by sounded? 30. Measured in its depth, which is done by a line that has a plummet or lead fastened to the end of it. Q. How is the depth of water commonly expressed? 31. In fathoms. Q. What is a fathom? 32. The measure or distance of six feet. 1 REPRESENT, to shew; describe, appear for another. 2 ARCHIPELAGO, (Ar ke-pel-a go.) 3 INTERSPERSED, scattered, or set nere and there among other things. 4 ENTRANCE, a passage or piace to in at. |