541. How many human beings are supposed to be on the earth?

542. What are the chief productions of Lapland? 543. How is Africa bounded?

544. How far does Sahara, or the Great Desert, extend?

545. Which are the principal lakes in America? 546. What is the produce of the United States? 547. Which of the West India Islands belong to the Swedes?—and which to the Dutch?

548. How is Caffraria situated? and where is the Cape of Good Hope?

549. Which are the principal rivers in Africa? 550. What is the chief produce of the West India Islands?

551. How are the Caribbee Islands situated?

552. Which are the chief cities and towns in the United States of North America?

553. Which are the principal islands contiguous to China?

554. What islands are opposite to Malaya? 555. Which is the chief river in Tonkin-China? 556. For what is Siam remarkable?

557. What is said of Pegue?

558. What islands belong to Scotland?

559. Which are the principal cities in Italy? 560. Which are the most considerable lakes in Scotland?

561. How is Portugal situated, and what are its chief towns?

562. What are the principal rivers of Italy? 563. What is remarkable in the streets of Holland?

564. Which are the principal powers in Germany? 565. Which are the chief rivers in Holland?

566. Which are the principal mountains in France? 567. Which is the chief city of Turkey in Europe, and how is it situated?

568. Which are the chief rivers in France?

569. Which are the principal rivers in Germany? 570. Are the canals in Holland very useful? 571. Which are the principal rivers in Russia? 572. What is a sea?

573. What are the chief productions of Lapland? 574. How do the inhabitants of Norway chiefly subsist?

575. Which is the chief town of Denmark, and how is it situated?

576. Are there many islands in the Baltic? 577. For what is Sweden celebrated?

578. Into how many provinces is Norway divided? 579. Are the mines of Sweden remarkable? 580. Whence do the rivers of Sweden take their rise?

581. Which is the chief town of Norway?

582. Which are the principal European rivers? 583. Are there any tides in the Baltic?

584. Are there any natural curiosities in Sweden? 585. What are the products of China?

586. Where is the Levant?

587. For what are Iviza, Majorca, and Minorca, famous?

588. For what is the coast of Greenland famous? 589. Which is the Great and which the Little Belt?

590. How long has Petersburg been a city of consequence?

591. On what gulf does it lie?

592. How is Holland, or the Netherlands, divided? 593. For what is Leyden famous ?

594. For what is the Hague famous?

595. Which were the three northern circles in Germany?

596. Which the middle, and which the southern? 597. How are the circles subdivided?

598. Are the independent princes in Germany

numerous?

599. Where stood the famous city of Delphos, and what is that city now?

600. What kind of government is that of Turkey? 601. What title does the Grand Seignior assume? 602. For what was the strait of Medina celebrated?

603. For what are Candia and Malta celebrated? 604. For what is Rhodes famous ?

605. How are the Azores situated?

606. Are the Scilly Islands visible from Cornwall? 607. Which is the usual passage from England to the capital of Ireland?

608. How is Berwick on Tweed situated?

609. What religion chiefly is professed in Asia? 610. For what is Mount Ararat famous ?

611. For what is Natolia, or Asia Minor, celebrated?

612. Where is that part of Asia which is called the Holy Land?

613. How is the river Jordan situated?

614. Of what length and breadth is the wall of China?

615. For what is Calcutta famous ?

616. For what is the wilderness of Arabia famous?

617. How are the mountains of North America situated?

618. Whence do the rivers La Plata and Maranon have their rise?

619. Which are the highest mountains in the world?

620. How far do the mountains of the Moon reach?

621. What is the extent of Barbary?

622. Of what height is the Peak of Tenerife? 623. How is the eastern coast of Africa divided? 624. For what is St. Helena remarkable? 625. What is the chief produce of Persia? 626. In what state are Ava and Pegue? 627. Which are the chief rivers of China? 628. To what power is Corea subject? 629. How is Siam situated?

630. What is the capital of Tuscany?

631. Which is the chief river of Spanish North America?

632. What are the principal products of India?

QUESTIONS ON THE USE OF THE
GLOBES.

633. Which are the Polar Circles?

634. What is the difference of latitude between Cape Horn and London?

635. What do you mean by latitude?

636. How is the wooden horizon of the globe divided?

637. How many degrees south of Delhi is Calcutta?

638. If, at twelve o'clock, I stand with to the sun, on which side is Lisbon ? *

my

back

*If the pupil stands with his back to the sun at twelve o'clock, he has the east on his right hand, the west on his left, the north before him, and the south behind him.

639. How do you reckon the longitude of a place?

640. How many zones are there?

641. What is the zenith?

642. What do you call the extreme points of the axis of the earth?

643. The clocks in Venice strike regularly from 1 to 24; what o'clock, therefore, is it at Nankin in China, and at Petersburg, when it is fourteen at Venice?

644. What o'clock is it Venice, when it is eight in the evening at Tobolsk?

645. If a ship sail in a direct course from the Cape of Good Hope to Van Dieman's Land, at the rate of eight miles an hour; but, during the voyage, there is a dead calm for eight days and nights, what will be the time taken up in the passage?

646. To what places is the sun rising, January 31, at noon?

647. What is the terrestrial globe?

648. What is the ecliptic?

649. Which is the torid zone?

650. Which are the temperate zones, and the frigid?

651. When will Sirius be on the meridian at midnight?

652. What is the celestial globe?

653. How do you find the length of the day and night at any time of the year?

654. How much longer is the 10th of May at Archangel than at Madras?

655. What do you mean by the declination of the sun?