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89. What is the greatest commercial city of Prussia?

90. On what river does it stand?

91. A vessel sails from Dublin to Petersburgh ;` through what seas does it pass?

92. What is the chief port of Russia on the Black Sea?

93. What are the gulfs branching off from the Baltic ?

94. What is the chief manufacturing city of France?

95. To whom does Parma now belong?

96. What is the chief commercial city of Italy? 97. What Greek island has been lately most distinguished?

98. A man travels by the most direct road from Rotterdam to Naples; through the dominions of what powers does he pass?

99. What is the greatest river rolling through Russia? and into what sea does it fall?

100. What fortress does Britain possess in Spain? 101. Where are the Ionian Islands?

102. What countries compose the kingdom of Sardinia ?

103. What great cities are on the Seine besides Paris?

104. Between what countries do the Carpathian mountains extend?

105. When it is noon at London, what hour is it at Stockholm?

106. When it is midnight at Petersburgh, what hour is it at Madrid?

107. To what power does the island of Candia belong?

108. What is the most remarkable city in Greece?

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ON THE MAP OF ASIA.

109. What seas bound Asia on the south? 110. To whom do Syria and Palestine now belong?

111. What is the capital of British India?

112. Near what city are the ruins of Babylon? 113. Between what countries does the Persian gulf extend?

114. What is the only sea-port in China where Europeans are allowed to trade?

115. Through what country does the Oxus flow? and into what lake does it fall?

116. What are the chief states of Chinese Tartary?

117. Whether is Ispahan or Pekin the most northerly?

118. In what part of Arabia was the Wahabi power established?

119. What states are subject to Cochin China? 120. To whom does most of the Oriental Archipelago belong?

121. What are the three presidencies of British India?

122. What is the capital of eastern Siberia? 123. Which is the most easterly empire in Asia?

124. What is the situation of Sincapore? 125. To whom does Arracan now belong? 126. Who holds now the chief independent power in Hindoostan? and where is his capital?

127. What is the chief commercial city on the Persian gulf?

128. Where is the residence of the Grand Lama? and in what country?

129. Which are the highest mountains in Asia? 130. Which are the principal rivers in China?

131. To what power do the Philippine Islands belong?

132. What straits separate Sumatra from Java? 133. To what power do Georgia and Circassia now belong?

134. What countries are separated by the Altaï mountains?

135. What are the chief inland seas of Asia?

136. Where is the chief seat of Mahometan pilgrimage?

137. Into what two parts is the southern coast of India divided?

138. To whom do Agra and Delhi now belong? 139. When it is noon at Nankin, what hour is it at Constantinople?

140. What is the chief sea-port of the Birman empire ?

141. What power holds most of the mountain territory in India?

142. What are the lakes in Palestine?

143. What are the chief cities of Syria?

144. Whether is Java or Amboyna farthest east? 145. Which is the chief commercial city in Asia Minor?

146. How many degrees is Calcutta east of Constantinople?

147. When it is midnight at Calcutta, what hour is it at Bombay?

148. What is the most southern cape of India? 149. How many degrees is Irkoutsk north of Calcutta?

150. Near what modern city are the remains of Nineveh ?

151. What are the principal rivers of India? 152. What independent state is situated at the mouth of the Indus?

153. In what territory is Seringapatam ?

154. What is the only port of Japan which the Dutch are allowed to enter?

155. What is the present capital of Siam ?

156. Where are pearls found in the Persian Gulf? 157. What is the chief seat of learning in India? 158. To what power does Malacca now belong?

ON THE MAP OF AFRICA.

159. What is the chief British settlement on the western coast of Africa?

160. Into what sea does the Niger fall?

161. Does it fall by one or by many mouths? 162. What countries have been conquered by the Pacha of Egypt?

163. On what part of the continent are the Atlas mountains?

164. What people live to the north of the Cape territory?

165. What is the chief settlement of the Portuguese on the eastern coast?

166. What is the chief island on the Niger? 167. For what is Loggun remarkable?

168. What are the chief cities on the Delta of the Niger?

169. What river flows through Nubia?

170. For what is the coast of Berbera remarkable?

171. What great lake is there in Abyssinia? 172. Behind what coast is the kingdom of Ashantee?

173. Where is the American settlement of Liberia?

174. Which is the most westerly point of Africa? 175. What is the most remarkable object in the Canary Islands?

176. At the mouth of what river is Quillimane? 177. By what people has Melinda been destroyed?

178. To what power does Mauritius now belong? 179. For what is St. Helena remarkable?

180. Where is the country of the Caffres?

181. By what European nation has Algiers been conquered?

182. What barbarous people have over-run great part of Abyssinia?

183. In what country is the source of the Nile reported to be?

184. For what is Timbuctoo remarkable?

185. What is the capital of Bambarra ?

186. On what river upon the western coast have the French their chief settlement?

187. What is the principal production of Madeira?

188. What are the chief Portuguese settlements on the western coast?

189. Where are the most remarkable of the ancient temples of Egypt?

190. What are the principal states of Houssa?

ON THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA.

191. What is the most commercial city in the United States?

192. How has Upper Canada been peopled? 193. Into what sea does the Mackenzie River fall?

194. On what island is Nootka Sound situated?

195. What is the greatest range of mountains in North America?

196. What is the greatest waterfall in North America? and where situated?

197. What constitutes the chief wealth of Mexico?

198. What is the greatest river in North America?

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