OF QUESTIONS IN GEOGRAPHY, ADAPTED TO ANY MODERN ATLAS, EMBRACING GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS, INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF BY DAVID H. PIERSON, PH.D. REVISED EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON, FOR ALBERT MASON. Eduro 7248,94.685 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF GEORGE ARTHUR FLIMPTON Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. THE want of a suitable Geography for beginners, and one, not encumbered with too much descriptive, statistical, and historical matter, for classes more advanced, induced the author to undertake the following work. In the study of Geography, the one great aim should be, to imprint the map upon the memory, so that whenever a geographical name is read or mentioned, its exact locality will be known at once, by recurring, mentally, to its position on the map, and not to a certain page or part of a page in a book, where the description is given. Therefore, that system of teaching geography is best adapted to common school education, which requires the learner to study the maps, and depend upon a knowledge of them, rather than upon initial letters or descriptive paragraphs in the book. The distinctive features of this system are as follows 1. It is suited to any correct modern Atlas. This will save trouble and expense. 2. It varies the form of questions. This will better prepare classes for examination by different persons, and tend to fix the desired knowledge in the memory. 3. It requires a constant searching of the Maps. This leaves in the mind, the appearance of the earth's surface, rather than initial letters and printed paragraphs. 4. It gives the latest changes in boundaries, capitals, &c. 5. It contains nothing to be omitted |