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northern part of Alabama? On what river is Montgomery? Where is Birmingham?

What state is west of Alabama? What rivets form its western boundaries? Where is Meridian?

What two rivers separate Louisiana from Mississippi? In sailing up the Mississippi, what large city would you reach about 100 miles from the mouth of the river? Where is Shreveport?

Crossing the Sabine river from Louisiana, what state do you enter? What river separates Texas from Mexico? What is the chief seaport?

Name the two longest rivers wholly within Texas. On which one is the capital?

What state is north of Texas? What river separates it from Texas? What boundaries of Texas are formed by New Mexico? What states are east of Oklahoma?

What river forms the eastern boundary of Arkansas? What large river crosses the state?

On what rivers might you sail from Chattanooga to New Orleans? What mountains are in the eastern part of Tennessee?

Name the two principal rivers of Tennessee. What large cotton-port is in the southwest corner of the state?

Review.—Let the Southern states be reviewed in the same manner as the New England states. See page 44.

Map-Drawing.—The state of Tennessee will be found an easy one to draw. Let the pupils copy it on their slates, and show the Cumberland mountains and the Tennessee river. Let them write in the proper places the names of the eight different states that bound Tennessee.