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 REVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES.

In what continent is the United States? In which hemisphere? What country lies north of it? What country south? Why is our country called the United States? How long is the country from east to west?

Groups of States.—''Where is each group? Of what states is each composed? What is the capital of each state?''



Islands.—Near what part of the coast?



If you were on any one of these islands, upon what water would you look?

Capes.—On what part of the coast?



Mountains.—Where are they, and in what direction do the ranges extend?

What grows upon the sides of the Appalachian mountains? What minerals are found among these mountains?

Bays, Sounds, and Gulf.—''Where is each? Is it of commercial importance? Why?''

Rivers.—''Where does each rise? In what direction and into what does it flow? Through (or between) what states does it flow? Can you name a city upon its banks? What is produced in the country through which it flows?''

Cities.—''Where is each? On what water? For what noted?''

MISCELLANEOUS REVIEW.

Of how many states did our country first consist? Where were they? How many states are there now? Name the groups. What different kinds of people would you find in different parts of our country?

What is the capital of our country? What is the title of the highest officer in the United States? Of the highest officer of a state? Of the highest officer of a city?

In what direction must we travel from New York to enter Canada? What state would you enter if you traveled directly south from your home? Name some of the largest cities of the United States.

Suppose you should take a trip up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Paul, what principal crops would you see by the way?

Where do you find the highest mountains in our country? If you should make a journey from Boston to San Francisco, would you see more level land on the way or more mountains? Would you notice very great changes of climate?

How many and what seasons are there in the year in your state? In what state is the year divided into a rainy and a dry season?

Where would you find the largest river in our country?

The largest fresh-water lakes? A salt lake? Where would you find the highest waterfall? Where the grandest?

In what state or states would you see sugar-cane growing? Cotton? Rice? Oranges? Where would you see the largest wheat and corn fields? The largest tobacco fields?

Where and at what time of the year would you find the farmers making maple sugar? What states produce coal? Salt? From what states do we get petroleum? For what is petroleum used?

What part of our country yields the most gold and silver? Where are the richest copper mines? In what states are the people most largely occupied in manufactures? In commerce? Fishing? Stock-raising? Lumbering?

What articles sold in a grocery store are produced in the United States? Which of them might be raised by New England farmers? By southern? By western?

Do you know of any natural curiosities in your own state? If so, where are they? What is remarkable about them? From what states are precious metals obtained? Which do you think the more important, the mineral or the vegetable productions of our country? Why?

In what part of the United States do the Indians chiefly live? If a boy should lose his boat upon the Allegheny river, on what waters might it float to the Atlantic ocean?