136. The islands belonging to Scotland are the Shetland, the Orkney, and the Hebrides, or Western Islands. 137. The principal rivers are the Forth, the Tay, the Dee, and the Don. The most considerable lakes are Loch Tay; Loch Lomond, which contains several islands; and Loch Ness, in Inverness-shire. The mountains are Ben Lomond Ben and Nevis. 138. IRELAND is divided into 4 large provinces: viz. Ulster northward, Leinster eastward, Munster southward, and Connaught westward. 139. These are subdivided into 32 counties: Counties. Dublin Chief Towns. Dublin Antrim Counties. Chif Towns. Londonderry Derry Wicklow Wicklow Fermanagh Inniskilling Donegal Lifford East Meath Trim Leitrim Ballinrobe West Meath Mullingar King's Co. Phillipstown Mayo Queen's Co. Maryborough Sligo Kilkenny Kilkenny Galway Kildare Naas and Athy Clare Carlow Carrickon Shan Sligo [uon 140. The chief towns are Dublin, the capital; Cork, Londonderry, and Belfast. Cork is a fiourishing commercial city, and remarkable for its fine harbour. The principal rivers are the Shannon, the Blackwater, the Boyne, and the Liffy. N.B. All the countries after France are more or less dependent on that power. Despotism implies that the will of the monarch is the law; and monarchy, that he goyerns according to established laws and customis, OF ASIA. 141. In Asia our first parents were created; it also became the nursery of the world after the Deluge; was the seat of the famous Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian, empires; and the scene in which Jesus Clist exerted himself to reform and save the human race. 142. The christian religion, though first promulgated in Asia, has been long banished from it. The Asiatics are chiefly Mahometans, or Pagans, and among the latter, idolatry puts on a different form in almost every different district. 143. The southern Asiatics are in general effeminate, luxurious, indolent, and servile, but they evince considerable genius in various arts and sciences. 144. Asia may be reckoned the richest and most fruitful part of the world. It abounds in corn, wine, and fruits, of all sorts. It furnishes every thing necessary for life and health-to satisfy vanity, avarice, and sensuality. It supplies the other parts of the world with spices, drugs, diamonds, precious stones, silks, inuslins, coffee, tea, &c. &c. The continent of Asia has Russia and Tartary on the north, Thibet in the middile, Arabia and Turkey on the west, India on Westru |