XLI.

QUESTIONS ON THE MAP.

General.-Name the North Atlantic States. Which is the largest? Which is the smallest? Which has no sea-coast? Which has the most broken coast? What mountain system covers a large part of New England? (See Physical Map of U. S., page 25.) Which state has no mountains? In what general direction do the rivers flow? Which is the largest river? What states does it separate? What states does it cross? Which state has the greatest number of lakes?

Maine. What river forms part of the northern boundary of Maine? Of the eastern? Of what lakes is it the outlet? Name four other principal rivers. From what lake does the Kennebec flow? What bays on the southern coast? What cape? What island? What city on Casco Bay? On the Saco River? On the Androscoggin? On the Kennebec? On the Penobscot? Which is the capital?

New Hampshire.-What mountains in the northern part of New Hampshire? What celebrated peak? What lake near the centre of the state? Which is the principal river in the state? In what state is the mouth of the Merrimac? What three cities in New Hampshire are on the Merrimac? Which is the capital? What sea-port in the southeast? At the mouth of what river? What city near the Piscataqua?

Vermont. What parallel forms the northern boundary of Vermont? What lakes does it cross? Which of these forms part of the western boundary? In what direction do its waters flow? Through what branch of the St. Lawrence? What mountains in this state? Into what other states do they extend? Name the two highest peaks in Vermont. What town is the capital? What city on Lake Champlain? What town north of Burlington? What town southwest of Montpelier?

Massachusetts.-What two large islands belong to the state? What bay east? What two bays southeast? What three capes on the coast? What peak in the southwest? In the northwest? What two near Connecticut River? What river enters the state from New Hampshire? What cities on the Merrimac? Which of these is a sea-port? What city is the capital? What city northwest of Boston? What two cities northeast? What town on Cape Cod Bay? What city on Buzzards Bay? What city northwest of New Bedford? What city on the Connecticut? Midway between Springfield and Boston?

Rhode Island. Name the two capitals of Rhode Island. On what island is Newport? (Rhode.) On what bay? What two towns north of Providence? What cape on the coast?

Connecticut. What water south of Connecticut? enter it from this state? What city is the capital?

What three rivers What two cities

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on the Thames? What two on or near Long Island Sound? What city northwest of New Haven? What three cities near the centre of the state?

Voyages and Travels.-What cities, capes, rivers, and islands would you pass in a coasting voyage from Bridgeport to Providence? From Providence to Boston? Boston to the St. Croix River? Through what cities by railroad from Bridgeport to Boston by way of Springfield? By way of Providence? Boston to Bangor? Boston to St. Albans by way of Nashua?

Cities and Towns.-In what part of the state? How situated? AUGUSTA? Portland? Lewiston? Bangor? Biddeford? CONCORD? Manchester? Nashua? Dover? Portsmouth? MONTPELIER? Rutland? Burlington? St. Albans ? BOSTON? Lowell? Worcester? Cambridge? Fall River? Lawrence? Lynn? Springfield? Salem? New Bedford? Plymouth? PROVIDENCE? NEWPORT? Pawtucket? Woonsocket?

HARTFORD? New Haven? Bridgeport? Norwich? Waterbury? Islands. Where situated?

Nantucket? Marthas Vineyard? Mount Desert?

Capes. From what coast does it project?
Elizabeth? Ann? Cod? Monomoy? Judith?

Mountains. Where are they?

broken by the mountains and numerous hills of this part of the Eastern Highland.

There are two principal ridges forming the sides of the long valley of the Connecticut River. The Green Mountains, near the western border, are the only continuous range. The irregular eastern ridge contains the White Mountains, the highest in New England.

The Atlantic shores are low in the south, and bold and rugged in the east. They furnish many good harbors.

3. Lakes and rivers.—The lakes and rivers are very numerous. Some of the lakes are celebrated for their

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beauty. The frequent rapids and falls render the rivers unnavigable beyond a short distance, but furnish the extensive water-power which has made New England one of the greatest manufacturing districts in the United States. 4. Climate and soil.-The winters are long and severe; the summers are short, but hot.

The soil is stony, and not very fertile, except in the valleys.

5. Agriculture. The agricultural products are not sufficient to supply the wants of the population.

The greater part of the breadstuffs and provisions used by the people of this section is brought from the Great Central Plain. Large quantities of live stock and wool are produced.

6. Occupations. - Manufactures and commerce are the leading pursuits.

The manufactures comprise fabrics of cotton, wool, leather, metal,
and wood, together with machinery, tools, and other articles in
great variety.

The fire-arms, cutlery, sewing-machines, and boots and shoes of
New England find a market in a large part of the civilized world.
The forests of hemlock and pine, especially in the southeast of
Maine, furnish valuable lumber.

7. Commerce.-The many excellent harbors, the comparative nearness to Europe, and the abundance of shiptimber have contributed to establish an extensive foreign

commerce.

The domestic commerce consists in the exchange of lumber, marble, granite, ice, and manufactured articles for coal, breadstuffs, provisions, and cotton, iron, wool, and other raw materials. For this purpose Southern New England possesses more coasting vessels and more miles of railroad than any other equal area in the United States.

RAILROAD UP MOUNT WASHINGTON.

Lewiston is

winter. Lewiston is largely engaged in manufacturing. Bangor is a great lumber depot. Augusta is the capital. 10. New Hampshire.-New Hampshire, "the Granite State," is remarkable for the beauty of its lakes and for the grand scenery of its mountains.

These mountains and lakes are much visited by tourists in sumMount Washington, the highest peak of the White Mountains, is 6288 feet high; the view from its summit is more extensive than any other east of the Mississippi. Of the lakes, Winnipiseogee, near the centre of the state, is the most beautiful. Concord, the capital, is famous for its manufacture of coaches and wagons. Manchester, the largest city, and Nashua are noted for the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods.

The Merrimac River is said to be more extensively used for manufacturing purposes than any other river in the world.

11. Vermont.-Vermont, " the Green Mountain State," is chiefly a grazing country. It is also noted for its rich quarries of marble, soapstone, and slate.

Burlington, on Lake Champlain, is a great lumber market. Rutland has marble quarries. Montpelier is the capital.

12. Massachusetts.-Massachusetts, "the Bay State," is one of the first in the Union in the value of its manufactures; it is also noted for its extensive fisheries.

Its area is less than one thirtieth of that of Texas. The population of the two states is nearly equal.

Boston, the capital, situated at the head of Massachusetts Bay, is the largest city in New England. In foreign commerce it ranks next after New York. It is the centre of a railway system which includes the Boston and Albany Railroad and many other important lines.

In the suburbs are many beautiful towns, large and small, connected with the city by railroads: such towns may be called residential towns, as they contain the homes of many thousands of the mercantile population of the city.

It has sometimes been called the "American Athens," on account of the excellence of its literary institutions. Lowell, Lawrence, and Fall River, famous for cotton manufactures; Worcester, a great railroad and manufacturing centre; Cambridge, the seat of Harvard University, the oldest and richest in America; Lynn, famous for its manufacture of boots and shoes; New Bedford, for cotton goods, and as the first sea-port in the world in the extent of its whale fisheries; and Springfield, containing a United States arsenal, are among its chief cities.

A MANUFACTURING TOWN.

Plymouth is celebrated as the landing-place of the Pilgrims, who formed a settlement there in 1620.

Lexington and Concord are famous for the opening engagements of the War of the Revolution, April 19, 1775.

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Providence, the second city in New England, is one of the capitals. Newport, the other capital, is famous as a summer resort. Pawtucket and Woonsocket are important manufacturing towns.

14. Connecticut.-Connecticut is noted for a greater variety of manufactures than any other state, and for its extensive coasting trade. New Haven, the seat of Yale College, is the largest city. Hartford, at the head of navigation on the Connecticut, is the capital. Bridgeport, Norwich, and Waterbury are large cities.

Questions (I.)-1. What is the position of the North Atlantic States? How do New England and California compare in size?-2. What is the character of the surface? Why?-3. What is said of the number of the lakes and rivers? For what are some of the lakes celebrated? What is the effect of the falls and rapids of the rivers? Why are they valuable?-4. What is the character of the climate? Of the soil?5. What is said of the amount of agricultural products?-6. What are the leading pursuits?-7. What is said of the foreign commerce? Of domestic commerce? Of the number of coasting vessels? Of railroads?-8. Of what descent are the people of New England? For what are they distinguished?-9. For what is Maine noted? Portland? Of what is it the principal gateway? What is said of Lewiston? Bangor? Augusta?-10. New Hampshire? Concord? Manchester and Nashua?-11. Vermont? Rutland? Burlington? Montpelier?-12. Massachusetts? Which is the largest city in New England? What is its rank in foreign commerce? Of what is it the centre? Name one of the most important lines of railroad. Name some of the other chief cities. For what is Lowell noted? Lawrence? Fall River? Worcester? Cambridge? Lynn? New Bedford? Springfield?-13. Rhode Island? Providence? Newport? Pawtucket and Woonsocket?-14. Connecticut? New Haven? Hartford?

(II.)-1. What is the relative size of Maine ?-2. What form the sides of the Connecticut Valley? Which is the only continuous range? What is said of the eastern ridge? What is the character of the surface near the Atlantic?-5. Where are the breadstuffs and provisions obtained? Name the chief grazing products.-6. Name some of the principal manufactures of New England. The forest product.-8. What is said of the colleges and schools? What is said of the population of the three smaller states?-9. What is said of the harbors of Maine?-10. What is said of the mountains and lakes? Of Mount Washington? Of Lake Winnipiseogee? Of the Merrimac River?-12. How does Massachusetts compare with Texas in area and population? What is said of the suburbs of Boston? What may these be called? What is Boston sometimes called? For what is Plymouth noted? Lexington and Concord ?13. What mineral in Rhode Island?

XLIV.

QUESTIONS ON THE MAP.

General. Name the states of this group. Which two are the largest? Which is the smallest? What mountain system covers a large part of the group? Which state has the most mountains? Which has none? Which state has many lakes?

New York. What two large islands belong to this state? What strait between them? What mountains in the north? The southeast? The east? What river flows into New York Bay? Its most important branch? What two rivers partly separate New York from Canada? What two lakes? Which way does Niagara River flow? What falls in that river? What lake in the southwestern part of the state? Name four lakes in the central part. What river drains them? What river west of the Oswego? What river flows into Delaware Bay? Chesapeake Bay? Ohio River? What lake forms a part of the northeastern boundary? What lake south of Lake Champlain? What city at the mouth of the Hudson? On Long Island? Name the chief cities on the Hudson. Which is the capital? What city at the mouth of the Oswego? The Mohawk? On the Genesee? Lake Erie? Near the Pennsylvania line? What two cities between Elmira and Oswego? What city east of Syracuse? What canal extends from Albany to Buffalo?

New Jersey. What cape at the southern point of New Jersey? At the northeast point? What mountains in the northwest? What city is the capital? On what river? What city on the Delaware opposite Philadelphia? What six cities in the northeast?

Pennsylvania. What parallel on the north? What river forms the eastern boundary? Name its principal branches. Name the chief mountain ranges of the state. What river crosses the state? Name its chief branches. What river in the western part? What two rivers form the Ohio? What city on the Delaware? On the Schuylkill? On the Lehigh? What two on the Susquehanna? What one on its west branch? Which is the capital? What city near Wilkesbarre? Between Harrisburg and Philadelphia? What two cities at the head of the Ohio? What one on Lake Erie? Between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg?

Delaware. What river flows into Delaware Bay? What cape opposite Cape May? What city in the northern part of the state? What city is the capital?

Maryland. What river separates Maryland from Virginia? What federal district on that river? What mountains in the state? In what part? What great bay divides the state into two parts? What two cities on or near the bay? Which is the capital? What city west of Baltimore? Near the western border?

District of Columbia.-What large city in the District of Columbia? What is Washington? What suburb has it?

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