north of Scotland? What cluster north-west? What cluster northeast of the Orkney Isles? Sh. Where are Rum and Canna islands? Jura and Islay? On what Firth is Inverness? Dornoch? Greenock? Dundee ? Dunfermline? Where are the Grampian Hills? Which is the more northerly, Selkirk or Berwick? Dunbar or Paisley? For what is Paisley noted? For fine cotton. How is Perth situated? Stirling? Ayr? What direction is it from Kilmarnock to St. Andrews? From the Isle of Skye to Sunday Island? From Kelso to Aberdeen? At the mouth of what river is Aberdeen situated? What town at the mouth of the Tweed? How is Thurso situated? Kilmarnock ? Port Patrick? Stonehaven? Kelso? Mull Island? What direction is it from Dumfries to Perth? From Inverness to Peterhead? From Montrose to Cromarty? Where is Cape Wrath? Campbelltown? Clyde River? Arran Island? Loch Ness? Ben Nevis? What is its height? What does Ben signify? Mountain. How can you sail from Greenock to London? From Edinburgh to Cromarty? Where is the Caledonian Canal? What channel between Scotland and Ireland? Which are the largest lakes in Scotland? Loch Tay, Loch Lomond and Loch Ness. Where is Staffa Island, and for what noted? East of Mull, and contains the magnificent curiosity called Fingal's Cave. Where is Gretna Green? In the southern part. For what is it noted? As a place to which fugitive lovers from England resort for marriage.

IRELAND.

How is Ireland bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? By what other names is Ireland sometimes called? The Emerald Isle, and Green E.in, from its beautiful and continued verdure. In what part is Cork? Waterford? Belfast? What direction is it from Cork to Kilkenny? From Londonderry to Newry? For what is Kilkenny noted? For its white, and black marble. On what river is Limerick? Carlow? The Barrow. On what bay is Sligo situated? Galway? Where is Ennis? Kinsale? Wexford? Bantry Bay? Cape Clear? Boyne River? Dingle Bay? At the mouth of what bay are the isles of Arran? Where is Lake Foyle? Lake

Corrib? How is Tipperary situated? Youghal? Where is Cansore Point? Cork Harbor? What bay on the north-west? Where is Lough Neagh? What is the meaning of the term lough? Lake, or inlet. On what bay is Dundalk? D. What sea east of Ireland? What channel between Ireland and Wales? Which extends farther north, Ireland or England? How can you sail from Dublin to Edinburgh? In what latitude is Cavan? What direction is it from Carlow to Wicklow? Where is the Giant's Causeway? In the northern part.

WALES.

How is Wales bounded? Has it any capital?
Q. How is this country governed?

A. Previous to 1283 it was governed by its own kings; but since that time it has been united to England, and the oldest son of the sovereign of England is styled the Prince of Wales.

What island north-west of Wales? What bay west? What channel south? On what island is Beaumaris? Where is Holyhead? What strait separates Anglesea from Wales? Menai. How is Pembroke situated? Cardiff? Holywell? What mountain in the northern part? What is the meaning of Snowdon? Snowhill. What direction is it from Montgomery to Cardigan? To Caernarvon? Where is the Wye River? Milford Haven? Merthyr-Tydvil? For what noted? It is the largest town in Wales.

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH ISLES.

1. Where are the following towns?

London? Edinburgh? Cork? Dublin? Litchfield? Perth? Dundalk? Oxford? Montgomery? Aberdeen? Chester? Pembroke? Stirling? Canterbury? Chatham? Paisley? Sheffield? Holyhead? Yarmouth? Galway? Bristol? Cardiff? Greenwich? Durham? Greenock? Tipperary? Plymouth? Bath? Holywell? Youghal? Douglass? Selkirk ? Liverpool? Cavan?

Cardigan? Carlow? Shrewsbury? Newark? Caernarvon? Falmouth? Wicklow? Londonderry? Dunfermline? Reading? Kilkenny? Gloucester? Waterford? Dunbar? Newry? Worcester? Sligo? Buckingham? Kilmarnock? Belfast? Leeds? Ayr? Dundee? Wexford? Peterborough? Campbelltown? Salisbury? Kelso? Kilmarnock? Berwick?

2. Where are the following rivers, what course do they run, and where do they empty?

Thames? Shannon? Clyde? Wye? Severn? Trent Boyne? Humber? Tweed? Avon? Mersey? Dee? Blackwater? Yare?

3. Where are the following bays, channels and capes?

Cardigan Bay? Galway? Bantry? Sligo? Dingle? Caernarvon? English Channel? North? Bristol? St. George's? Cape Clear? Wrath? Land's-End? Carnsore Point? Lizard Point?

4. Where are the following islands, mountains, hills? &c.

Shetland? Hebrides, or Western? Isle of Man ? Isles of Arran? Scilly Isles? Anglesea? Islay? Isle of Wight? Jura? Canna? Lundy? Ram? Mull? Mount Snowdon? Ben Nevis ? Cheviot Hills? Grampian Hills? Giant's Causeway? Caledonian Canal? Milford-Haven ?

NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

(Map of Europe.)

Q. What do Sweden and Norway form ?

A. A vast peninsula, under the control of the same sovereign. It was anciently called Scandinavia.

What bodies of water around this peninsula? What is the width of the isthmus that connects it with Russia? 200 miles. What mountains between Sweden and Norway? When were these two countries united into one kingdom? In 1814. Have they the same laws? They have not. Each has its own laws and its own legislature.

NORWAY.

How is Norway bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? What islands on the coast? What cape at the southern extremity? What does Naze mean? The nose. What town situated on the Skager Rack? Christiansand. What other town nearly of the same name in latitude 60°? What is the principal river in Norway? How is Drontheim situated? What remarkable whirlpool on the coast? What is the meaning of Maelstrom? Grinding Stream. It is heard at a great distance, and is so violent that every thing coming near it, is drawn in and destroyed. How is Bergen situated? How could you sail from Bergen to Stockholm? Which is the most northern cape? What town on an island south-west of North Cape? For what noted? It is the most northern town in Europe.

SWEDEN.

How is Sweden bounded? What is the capital? How is it situated? On seven rocky islands, in the strait, which connects Lake Malar with the Baltic. What two lakes south-west of Malar? Which is the larger? What town on the Categat? How is Carlscrona situated? For what noted? It is the station of the Swedish Navy. What river empties into the northern part of lake Wener? C. What town at its mouth? Carlstadt. Where is Upsal? For what noted? Its university. What island in the Gulf of Bothnia, nearly east of Upsal? Where is Fahlun? For what noted? Its copper mines. What river forms the boundary line between Sweden and Russia? What is the general direction of the rivers of Sweden? Where is Calmar? What two islands east of it? How is Umea situated? Sundswall?

A. The northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Russia.

Q. To whom does it belong?

A. Nominally to Sweden and Russia; but owing to the poverty of the country, the inhabitants are not subjected to any control.

What is the largest town, and how situated? T. What town in the northern part near the Arctic Ocean? What lake west of it? Where is Uleaborg? What is its latitude?

RUSSIAN EMPIRE.

Q. What does the Russian Empire comprise?

A. About one-half of Europe, nearly a third of Asia, and a portion of North America. It embraces about one-seventh of the land surface of the earth.

Of Asia?

Of

What part of Europe belongs to Russia? North America? In what direction is it longest? What is the Emperor called? Czar, and sometimes Autocrat. What part of the Russian Empire extends farthest north? What part farthest south? (See Map of the World.)

RUSSIA IN EUROPE.

How is Russia bounded? What is the capital, and how situated? In what part is Moscow ? What curiosity at Moscow ? An enormous bell weighing nearly 200 tons. It is the largest

in the world, and has never been removed from the pit in which it was cast. It is 67 feet in circumference and 19 feet high. What two large lakes north-east of the Gulf of Finland? Which is the larger? What mountains separate European from Asiatic Russia? What river empties into the sea of Azof? What three empty into the northern part of the Black Sea? What town stands near the mouth of the Dnieper? What two gulfs on the eastern part of the Baltic? Which one has a town situated on it, of the same name with the gulf? At the mouth of what river is Riga? Where is Lake Peipus, or Tchoudsko? What lake east of it? What town on lake Ilmen ? How is Viborg