In the middle portions, what are produced in great perfection?

Indian-corn, wheat, tobacco, peaches,

United States: in what part of North America is it and apricots.

situated?

Nearly in the central part.

For what is it distinguished?

What are the staple products in the south?

Cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugarcane; figs, oranges, and other tropical

It is the most powerful and pros- fruits also flourish here. perous country in America.

What can you say of the extent of its territory? It reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and embraces more than a third part of North America.

What is the climate of the United States?

In the north it is rather cold; in the south, hot; in the middle portions, mild and agreeable.

What can you say of its vegetable productions?

They are various, those of each section corresponding to its climate.

Of what do they chiefly consist in the north'

Grain, grass, potatoes, and the more hardy kinds of fruit, such as apples and

pears.

Why are the products of the south not cultivated in the Northern States?

Because the climate is too cold for their growth.

In what parts of the country does agriculture form the leading pursuit of the people?

In the Southern and Western states.

In what sections are the inhabitants most largely engaged in manufactures and commerce?

In the Middle and Eastern states.

Mention other branches of industry which furnish employment to many.

Mining, lumbering, and the fisheries.

States?

What can you say of the government of the United
It is a Federal Republic.

What two towns on the Merrimac, noted for their manufactures? L-1, L-e.

What city in the interior, containing a state .unatic asylum? W-r (woos'ter).

What, on the Connecticut, containing a United States armory? S-d.

What town in the western part of the state? P-d. What town in the southeastern part of the state, noted for its whale fisheries? N. B-d.

What two capitals has Rhode Island? P-e, N-t.
At the head of what bay is Providence? N-t.
Where is Newport situated? On an island in Nar-
ragansett Bay.

What two capitals has Connecticut? H-d, N. H-n.
On what river is Hartford? C-t.

Near what sound is New Haven? L. I-d.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.-In what state is Moosehead Lake? M-e.

What large island on the coast of Maine? M. D-t. In what state are the White Mountains? N. H-e. In what state are the Green Mountains? V-t. What lake between Vermont and New York? C-n. What three capes on the eastern coast of Massachusetts? A-n, C-d, M-r.

What three states south of Pennsylvania? D-e,
M-d, V-a.

What state south and west of Delaware? M-d.
Which is the smallest of the Middle States? D-e.

RIVERS.-What river on the northern boundary of New York? St. L-e.

Of what lake is it the outlet ? 0-0.

In what direction does the St. Lawrence River flow? What river flows from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario? Niagara.

What celebrated falls in Niagara River? N-a. What river flows into the south part of Lake Ontario? G-e.

What, flows into the east end of Lake Ontario? B-k.
What river flows south through the eastern part of
New York? H-n.

What, between New Jersey and Pennsylvania? D-e.
D-e.
Into what bay does the Delaware River flow?
What river, rising in New York, flows through Penn-
sylvania? S-a.

Into what bay does the Susquehanna River flow? C-e.
What tributary has the Susquehanna from the west ?
W-t B-h.

What two rivers unite in the west part of Pennsyl

What two islands off the southeast coast of Massa- vania, and form the Ohio River? A-y, M-a. chusetts N-t. M-'s V-d.

N. Y-k, N. J-y, D-e.

Which state has no sea-coast? P-a.

Which state extends farthest north and east? N. Y-k.
Which state extends farthest south? D-e.
Which state extends farthest west? P-a.
What lakes border on New York? E-e, 0-0, C-n.
What three states east of New York? V-t, M-s, C-t.
What two, on the south of New York? N. J-y, P-a.
What state west of New Jersey? P-a.
What state west of Pennsylvania? O-o.

CITIES AND TOWNS.-What city, the largest in
America, at the mouth of the Hudson? N. Y-k.
What is the capital of the State of New York? A-y.
On what river is Albany situated? H-n.
What flourishing city north of Albany? T-y.
What town, near the center of the state, noted for
its salt-works? S-e.

What place, on Lake Ontario, nearly north of Syracuse? 0-o.

What town on Genesee River, near Lake Ontario, noted for its flouring mills? R-r.

What town at the eastern end of Lake Erie, a place of extensive lake commerce? B-o.

Forests of hemlock, spruce, pine, Vermont: for what noted?