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What large river forms the S. W. boundary of Texas?

How many states border on the Gulf of Mexico, and what are their names?

Which state has the greatest extent of sea-coast?

What two states are separated by the Potomac River?

What river separates South Carolina from Georgia?

Through what states does the Blue Ridge run?

What is the capital of Maryland? Of Virginia? Of North Carolina ? Of South Carolina ? Of Georgia? Of Florida? Of Alabama? Of Mississippi? Of Louisiana? Of Texas?

How many western states are there? Eleven.

What are their names? Oo., Ky., Te., Mn., Ia., Is., Mo., As., Wn., Ia., Ca.

Which is the largest ?

Which four are bounded in part by the Ohio River?

Through which one does the Missouri flow?

Which state borders on the Pacific?

Which three are bounded east by the Mississippi?

What four border on Lake Michigan?

Through what seven do rivers flow of the same name with the states? Ky., Te., As., Mo., Is., Wn., Ia.

What is the capital of Ohio? Of Kentucky? Of Tennessee? Of Michigan? Of Indiana? Of Illinois? Of Missouri? Of Arkansas? Of Wisconsin? Of Iowa? Of California?

What river separates Indiana in part from Illinois ?
In what direction is Kentucky from California ?
What is the general course of the Missouri River?
Which are the largest three branches of the Mississippi?

Which is the most western Territory?

Which is the most southern?

Where is Lake Champlain ?

What four states are bounded in part by Lake Erie ?

How many states lie entirely west of the Mississippi River?

Name them?

Name the fourteen states that border on the Atlantic Ocean?
What state lies north of Long Island Sound?

What state is bounded in part by four large lakes?

What two states are separated by the Chattahoochee River? What states are separated in part by the Cumberland Mountains? Va., Ky.

What two are separated by the Alleghany Mountains?

Which is the largest state in the Union? Ts.

Which is the smallest? R. I.

Which two states have each two capitals?

Where is Moosehead Lake?

What river flows from Moosehead Lake into the Atlantic?

What lake south of Lake Champlain? G.

What two capes in the eastern part of Massachusetts ?

What mountains in New-Hampshire?

What mountains in Vermont ?

What two islands south-east of Massachusetts ?

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What island in the north-western part of Lake Superior?
What two capes at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay?

What two sounds east of North Carolina ?

Where is Apalachee Bay?

What three capes in the eastern part of North Carolina?

Where is Chatham Bay? South of Florida.

Where is Pensacola Bay? Tampa Bay?

Where are Penobscot and Casco bays?

What large bay is connected with Lake Michigan?

What river rises in New-York and flows into Chesapeake Bay?

What river in part divides Georgia from Alabama?

What two rivers when united form the Ohio ?

What two rivers when united form the Mobile?

What two rivers flow into the Ohio near its mouth?

What river in part separates Louisiana from Texas?

Which is the larger river, the Tennessee or the Cumberland? What river in part separates Virginia from Kentucky? Where is the Sacramento River?

What bay at the mouth of the Sacramento?

What town at the mouth of the Columbia River?

Where is the Rio San Joaquin?

Through what states would a person pass in traveling from the capital of New-York to the capital of Maine, in a straight line?

A person in traveling from New-Jersey to Arkansas may pass through but three states. Name them?

In what direction from Connecticut is Maine?

In what direction from us is the Gulf of Mexico?

Which extends farther north, Pennsylvania or Illinois ?
Which extends farther south, North Carolina or Arkansas?
Which one of the United States extends farthest south?
What is the principal branch of the Hudson River?
What cape in the eastern part of New-Jersey. A. Sandy Hook.
What two capes on the eastern coast of Florida?

Through what states would you pass in traveling in a straight line from Louisiana to Ohio? From Texas to Maine? From New-Jersey to Missouri?

What states border on Alabama?

In what part of Ohio is Columbus?

On what river is Jackson?

In what part of Missouri is Jefferson City?

What is the general course of the Mississippi?

Can we go to South America by land?

What is the capital of Iowa? Of Maine? Of Wisconsin? Of New-Hampshire? Of Illinois? Of Vermont? Of Kentucky? Of Massachusetts ? Of Missouri? Of Rhode Island? Of Arkansas? Of Connecticut? Of Tennessee? Of New-York? Of Texas? Of New-Jersey? Of Louisiana? Of Pennsylvania? Of Mississippi? Of Delaware? Of Alabama? Of Maryland? Of Florida? Of Virginia? Of Georgia? Of North Carolina? Of California ? Of South Carolina? Of Ohio? Of Michigan? Of Indiana?

The initials of certain capitals spell BRANCH. Name them? Name the capitals whose initials spell CAPTAIN ?

Of what state is Jackson the capital? Trenton? Columbus? Columbia? Lansing? Madison?

MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA.

In what direction from us is South America?

What body of water is on the north?

What is on the east?

What strait on the south?

What is on the west?

What prevents South America from being an island?
What is an isthmus?

Which is the largest grand division of South America?
Which is the most southern division?

Which lies in the north-western part? N. G.
Which lies in the northern part? V.

What division east of Venezuela?
What division next south of Equador?

What two divisions directly north of Patagonia?
Which is the larger of these?

Which has the greater amount of sea-coast?

What division between Buenos Ayres and Peru?

What two small divisions east of Buenos Ayres ?

How many graud divisions of South America are there? What are their names?

Which is the smallest ?

Which is the most western division?

What divisions lie on the Atlantic?

What division extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

What divisions lie on the Pacific?

What divisions lie on the Caribbean Sea?

What division between New-Granada and Peru?

What range

South America?

of mountains extend along the western coast of

What three large rivers in South America?

Which is the largest river in the world? Amazon.

What is a river?

What two rivers unite and form the La Plata? P. and U.

What river flows into the Caribbean Sea?

What island at the mouth of the Orinoco?

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What is the mouth of a river?

What island at the mouth of the Amazon?

What island south of Patagonia?

What island south-east of Terra del Fuego? S.

What strait separates Terra del Fuego fom Patagonia?

What is an island?

What island south of Chili? C.

What strait between Staten Land and Terra del Fuego?
What is a strait?

What islands east of the Strait of Magellan ?

What islands west of Chili?

What islands north of Juan Fernandez?

What large island on the western coast of Patagonia?

Where is Hermit Island?

Which is the most northern cape of South America?

Which is the most eastern cape?

Which is the most southern cape?
Which is the most western cape?
Where is Blanco Bay?

What cape east of Rio Janeiro?

Where is Cape St. Antonio?

What Cape north of the mouth of the Amazon ?

Where is St. George's Bay?

What cape south of it?

What peninsula in the north-eastern part of Patagonia ?

Where is St. Mathias Bay?

Where is the peninsula of Tres Montes, or the Three Mounts? What is a peninsula ?

Where is Port Desire River?

What river, in part, separates Patagonia from Buenos Ayres? What gulf south of the peninsula of Tres Montes?

Q. How high is the highest mountain in South America. A. Twenty-five thousand three hundred and eighty feet.

Q. In what country is the greatest volcano in the world?
A. Equador.

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