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Image 1 of The common school geography ...- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 2 of The common school geography ... Class _Gl/-2Z Book— F 7S COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 5 of The common school geography ... ~£^/i^LtX *L ^/t^k^f a e v V THE COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY: IN WHICH THE NATURAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH, AND SUCH PERMANENT DIVISIONS AS HAVE BEEN MADE BY MAN, ABE DESCRIBED AND…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 6 of The common school geography ... Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, By William B. Fowle, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE A. CURTIS, NEW ENGLAND…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 7 of The common school geography ... PREFACE. Lest the diminutive size of this Geography, compared with many others, should induce any one to think that it contains less than it ought, it is necessary to say a few…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 8 of The common school geography ... IV PREFACE. Finally, the most popular school geography sol- emnly promises not to change oftener than once in jive years Now all these changes are rendered necessary by the intrusion of matter…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 9 of The common school geography ... PREFACE. V A knowledge of that part of geography, which is truly fixed, must be learned by some other pro- cess than committing to memory as it is called, which is generally…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 10 of The common school geography ... VI PREFACE. not be crowded, as is generally the case, into the first lessons of a very different science. It will be seen that every question is asked twice, besides the General…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 11 of The common school geography ... THE COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. No. 1, The Earth, or World. It is a common remark that children are apt to know the geography of distant countries better than that of their own…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 12 of The common school geography ... 8 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. INTRODUCTION. 1. What is the shape of the Earth 1 A. Round like a ball. Note. Very small pupils will be amused and in- structed by the teacher…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 13 of The common school geography ... INTRODUCTION. 9 Note. A line drawn from one side to the other, not through the centre, would not be the diameter. 5. Q,. How many miles is the earth in diam- eter…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 14 of The common school geography ... 10 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. Note. Draw a circle, or let the pupil draw one. Then dot two opposite points for the poles. Draw a line from dot to dot for the Axis.…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 15 of The common school geography ... INTRODUCTION. 11 keeping at the same distance from each other. Places north of the equator are in North Latitude, and places south of the equator are in South Latitude. No. 4. The…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 16 of The common school geography ... 12 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. No. 5. Pole, lok, Meridians of Longitude. Now let the pupil draw a circle, an axis, an equator, and a few parallels and meridians. It may fix the…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 17 of The common school geography ... INTRODUCTION. No. 6. 13 lay the halves upon the map, then put them together as before they were cut, and it will be seen that the two edges, which seem to be…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 18 of The common school geography ... 14 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. Cut the apple then at the equator, and lay the two halves upon our second map of the world, to show how the countries on the equator match.…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 19 of The common school geography ... INTRODUCTION. 15 down. Oblige them often to use the maps with the south side where the north usually is. Our map of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is well calculated to correct…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 20 of The common school geography ... 16 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS. Note. In the following lesson, the teacher must first explain the imaginary map, (No. 8,) which exhibits the principal divisions, and this the children may copy…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
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Image 21 of The common school geography ... INTRODUCTION. 17 3. Q. What is a Strait? A. The narrow passage connecting large bodies of water. 4. Q. What is a Lake? A. A body of fresh water surrounded by land.…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
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Image 22 of The common school geography ... 18 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. No. 9.- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
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Image 23 of The common school geography ... MAPS OF THE WORLD. 19 Questions on the Maps of the Wo? Id. 1. Which is the Northern Hemisphere? which the Southern? 2. Which is the Eastern Hemisphere? which the Western Note.…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
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Image 24 of The common school geography ... 20 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. 15. Which way do Africa and Australasia lie from it 16. What large body of water separates Asia from America 17. What large body of water separates Amer-…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 25 of The common school geography ... MAPS OF THE WORLD. 21 And, for a general rule, the maps drawn should relate to the lesson in hand. The best way to proceed in draw- ing maps is to draw…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 26 of The common school geography ... 22 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. seen on the map of the world. Let him then turn to the map of North America, where Massachusetts is just worthy of being outlined. Then show the…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 27 of The common school geography ... MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS. No. 10. 23 5. What is the most western county of Massa- chusetts called 6. Which county joins Berkshire on the north- east? 7. What county joins Berkshire on…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 28 of The common school geography ... 24 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. 9. What county lies east of Franklin, Hamp- shire, and Hampden? 10. What county lies northeast of Worcester 11. What county lies northeast of Middlesex? 12. What county…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 29 of The common school geography ... MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS. 25 22. What two high mountains are m the centre ©f Hampshire county? 23. What high mountain is in Princeton, Wor- cester county? Islands. 24. What large island lies…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 30 of The common school geography ... 2G COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. course through Essex county, and falls into the Atlantic Ocean 1 37. What river rises west of the Hoosack moun- tains, and runs south through Berkshire county into…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 31 of The common school geography ... MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS. 27 and running through part of Norfolk and Middle- sex counties, falls into Boston Bay? 49. What river rises in Norfolk county, and rims northeast into Boston Bay south…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 32 of The common school geography ... 2 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. Directions. If the pupils are small, they should only e required at first to point at the town on the map, the teacher saying, Find Boston, the capital…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 33 of The common school geography ... MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS. No. 12. 29 *br^r^\ Nakanl. Gloucester, near which is Cape Ann. Marblehead, on a point of land near Salem. Andover, on the Merrimack, where is a distin- guished Theological…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 34 of The common school geography ... 30 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. Dorchester, the next in size, adjoining Roxbury, In Bristol County. Taunton, on Taunton River, the county and largest town. New Bedford, a seaport on an arm of Buzzard…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 35 of The common school geography ... MAP OF MASSACHUSETTS. 31 In Hampden County. Springfield, the county and largest town, at the junction of the Chicapee and Connecticut. The United States have a man- ufactory of fire-arms here. West…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 36 of The common school geography ... 32 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. Bays. 12. Where is Massachusetts Bay? Barnstable and Cape Cod Bay? Buzzard s? Boston Bay? Mt. Hope Bay Plymouth Bay Islands. 13. Where is Nantucket Island Martha s…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 37 of The common school geography ... MAP OF UNITED STATES. 33 24. Where is Dedham? Roxbury? Dorches- ter? 25. Where is Taunton New Bedford Fall River 26. Where is Plymouth Middleboro 27. Where is Barnstable? Sandwich? Nan- tucket…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 38 of The common school geography ... 34 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. 1. By what lakes and rivers are the United States bounded on the north 2. What country bounds the U. S. at the north 3. What ocean bounds…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 39 of The common school geography ... UNITED STATES. 35 20. What territory between Iowa and the Rocky Mountains westward 21. What territory west of the states of Mis- souri and Arkansas, whither the Indian tribes have been removed…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843
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Image 40 of The common school geography ... 36 COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. 3. What three capes east of North Carolina? What cape south of Florida Mountains. 4. What chain of mountains runs through the United States 5. What mountains in…- Contributor: Fowle, William Bentley
- Date: 1843