What is Foreign Commerce? The trade which is carried on with people of other countries. What is Domestic Commerce? The trade carried on between people of the same country. What would you call the trade between a merchant in New York and another in London? Foreign Trade or Commerce. What would you call a trade between a merchant in New York and one in Cincinnati? Domestic Trade or Commerce. LADING A VESSEL AT A WHARF. LESSON 20. GOVERNMENT. What is indispensable to your improvement and happiness in the school? Good order. What is necessary to the attainment of this object? Rules, directing us to do what is right, and forbidding us to do what is wrong. What may such rules be called? For what are these laws made? To govern the conduct of the pupils. What does to govern mean? To regulate by law or authority. What, then, is Government? Regulating the conduct of persons by the making and enforcing of laws. What is a State? All the people of a country united under one government. What is the person at the head of the government usually styled? Governor, President, King, or Em What are the chief productions of a country called peror. in Commerce? Staple commodities. May your school be regarded as a little state? Yes; the teacher being the gov What are commodities called when carried out of a ernor, and the scholars the people. country? Exports. What, when brought into a country? Imports. What are laws made for a state called? For what purpose are state laws made? If a merchant in New York sends wheat to Europe, ple and protect them from injury. is it an import or an export? The same merchant receives silk in return; is it an import or an export? What is the making and executing of such laws called? State or national government. GOVERNMENTS AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS. LESSON 22. POLITICAL DIVISIONS. 19 In your lessons about land and water, what did you call such divisions as mountains, rivers, and lakes? Natural Divisions, because they exist in nature. Are countries, cities, and towns natural divisions? No; they do not exist in nature, but are made by man. What are such divisions called? Political Divisions. For what are these diyisions made? For the purposes of government. Name the principal ones. Empires, Kingdoms, and Republics. What body of land east of the northern part of North America? G-d. What island near the eastern extremity of North America? New'foundland. What islands between North and South America? W. I-s. What islands in the Atlantic Ocean north of the West Indies? B-a. What groups of islands still farther to the east? A-e, C-e V-e. What islands west of South America, nearly under the line of the Equator? G-s. What islands extend in a chain, nearly east and west, from the northwestern part of North America? A-n. What islands does Oceanica embrace? A great number of islands in the Pacific Ocean. What group of islands of Oceanica is situated west of North America, and a little to the south of the Tropic of Cancer? S-h. What archipelago near the Equator? C-1. What groups of islands between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn? S-y, F-e. What group of islands south of the Tropic of Cap ricorn? N. Z-d. SEAS, GULFS, AND BAYS.-What is a Sea, Gulf, or Bay? What bay west of Greenland? B-n's. What bay in the north part of North America? H-n's. What gulf on the east of North America? St. L-e. What, on the south of North America? M-0. What sea washes the northern coast of South America? C-n. What gulf on the west coast of North America? C-o. STRAITS.-What is a Strait? What strait joins Baffin's Bay with the Atlantic? D-s. RIVERS.-What is a River? What river in North America flows into the Arctic Ocean? M-e. What river flows into the Gulf of Mexico? M-i. What river flows into the Mississippi? M-ri. What river flows into the Pacific? C-a. What river in the north part of South America? O-o. What river in the southern part? Rio de la P-a. What river has its mouth nearly under the line of the Equator? A-n. Into what ocean do these three rivers flow? At-c. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.-What grand division is partly shown on the northwest part of this map? Asia. What strait separates North America from Asia? B-g's. Which of the two grand divisions of the Western Hemisphere lies wholly north of the Equator? N. A-a. On which side of the Equator does the greater portion of South America lie? What circle crosses the northern part of North America? A-c. What zone north of this circle? N. F-d. What tropic crosses the southern part of North America? C-r. In what zone is the greater part of North America? N. T-e. What tropic crosses South America? C-n. In what zone is the greater part of South America? T-d. In what zone is the southern part? S. T-e. What land near the South Pole? In what zone is it? S. F-d. V-a. |