What general name is given to the islands of the Pacific? What large island south of the United States? What island east of Cuba? MAP OF NORTH AMERICA. How is North America bounded on the north? What ocean on the west? In what part is British America? In what part is Russian America? What country in the most southern part? Name all the countries of North America? A. Five thousand miles. Q. How wide is it? A. Three thousand miles. What gulf east of Mexico? What gulf between Mexico and California? What gulf west of Newfoundland? What bay and strait separate Greenland from North America? What bay south of Hudson's Bay? What bay north of Central America? What bay west of Yucatan? What is a gulf or bay? Which is more northerly. Hudson's Bay or Baffin's Bay? Where is the Gulf of California? What strait between Newfoundland and Labrador? What bodies of water does it connect? What two straits lead into Hudson's Bay? What strait separates North America from Asia? What strait leads from Baffin's Bay into the Polar Sea What cape in the southern part of California? What cape in the southern part of Greenland? What is a Cape? What cape in the southern part of Nova Scotia? What cape in the south-eastern part of Newfoundland? R. What cape south of Chesapeake Bay? What cape in the southern part of Florida? What cape in the eastern part of Labrador? What cape at the western extremity of Cuba? What cape in the north-eastern part of Central America? What four large lakes between the United States and British America? Which is the largest? Which is the most eastern ? Which is the most western? What is a lake ? What is a pond? What large lake lies north-west of Lake Superior? What lake in Mexico? What lake south of Lake Superior wholly within the United States? How do the waters of Lake Huron reach the Atlantic Ocean? What Island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence? What is a River? In what direction does the St. Lawrence run? What large river flows into the Polar Sea? What large river flows into the Pacific Ocean? What two unite, and flow into the Gulf of California ? What two large rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico? Where the Mississippi and Missouri unite, which is the larger ? Where is Smith's Sound? What is a Sound? Where is Albemarle Sound? Where is Prince William's Sound? Where is Lancaster Sound? Where is Norton Sound? Where is Queen Charlotte's Sound? What long range of mountains separates the waters that flow into the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from those that flow into the Pacific? What is the southern part of the Rocky Mountains called? What mountains separate the waters which flow into the Ohio and Mississippi from those that flow into the Atlantic? Where is Grinnell Land? A. In the Arctic Ocean. When and by whom was it discovered? A. In 1850, by an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, fitted out by Henry Grinnell, Esq., of New-York. What mountain in this Land? A. Mount Franklin. What is the general direction of the Rocky Mountains? What desert in the western part of the United States ? Which is the largest division of North America? What large division in the centre ? What is the general name given to the islands that lie between North and South America ? Which is the largest ? Which is the second in size? The third? What large island in the northern part of Hudson's Bay? What cluster of islands north of Cuba? What cluster east of the United States? What is an island? Where is Melville Island? Where is Queen Charlotte's Island? Where is Long Island? Where is Vancouver's Island? Where is Cape Breton Island? Where is Iceland? To whom does it belong? A. To Denmark. Where is Prince Edward's Island? Where is the peninsula of Alaska? What peninsula between Baffin's Bay and the Atlantio ? What peninsula west of Mexico? What peninsula south of the Gulf of Mexico? What is a peninsula ? In what direction does the eastern coast of the United States run? The western coast ? In what direction from us is Cape Farewell? cas? Isthmus of Darien ? Cape St. Lu Cook's Inlet? Lake Superior ? Bermuda Islands? Lake Winnipeg? Mt. St. Elias? James Lake Chapala? Prince William's Land? Bay Q. What is the Capital of a country? A. The place where the laws are made. What is the capital of Central America? NOTE. A review of each map before proceeding to the next, is recommended. MAP OF THE UNITED STATES. How are the United States bounded? What is the capital? What is a State? A. A division of country over which a governor presides. How many states are there? How many territories? In how many grand divisions are these states included? A. Four: viz., Eastern, Middle, Southern, and Western. Which are Eastern States? A. Those east of New-York. Q. What are their names? A. Maine, N. H., Vt., Ms., Con., R. I. Which is the largest ? Which is the smallest ? Which has no sea-coast? Which has the greatest extent of sea-coast? Which is the largest river in the Eastern States? Where does it empty? Through what two states does it run? What two states are separated by it? What is the capital of Maine? What is the capital of New-Hampshire? How many Middle States are there? Four. Which is the smallest ? Which has no sea-coast? What river separates New-Jersey from Pennsylvania? What large river in the eastern part of New-York? What is the capital of New-York? Of New-Jersey? Of Pennsylvania? Of Delaware ? What river from Pennsylvania empties into Chesapeake Bay? How many Southern States are there? A. Ten. What are their names? Md., Va., N. C., S. C., Ga., Fa., Aa, Mi., La., Ts. Q. Describe their position? A. All the states S. W. of Delaware bordering on the Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, are southern states. Which is the largest? Ts. |