307. What are the chief watering places in England?

308. What is the chief bathing quarter in Wales?

309. What is the name of the sea between England and Ireland?

310. In what province is the mountain called the Peak?

311. What are the circumstances that render Great Britain so flourishing?

312. What is the most extensive English manufacture?

GENERAL QUESTIONS ON SUBJECTS TREATED IN THE GRAMMAR.

313. Why is Rome the resort of intelligent travellers?

314. Into what three political parts is Hindoostan divided?

315. Why is the kingdom of Cabul so much weakened?

316. What is the article chiefly exported from China?

317. Wherein consists the beauty of Venice? 318. What is the character of the Germans? 319. What are the finest wines of France?

320. There are only three countries which produce diamonds; which are they?

321. What is the chief produce of Mexico and Peru?

322. How are the United States of America governed?

323. Under what leader did the Mongols conquer the greater part of Asia?

324. For what are the Circassians remarkable? 325. What is the chief manufacture in central Africa?

326. By what nations is the whale fishery mostly carried on?

327. What are the productions of the Spice Islands?

328. What nation at present rules in China?

329. In what manufacture does France most excel?

330. In what part of the globe is the Aurora Borealis most frequent?

331. In what quarter is the Christian religion chiefly established?

332. What is Mahommed Ali doing to improve Egypt?

333. What is the capital of the Dutch settlements in India?

334. For what are the people of Loo-choo remarkable ?

335. What commodities does New Zealand furnish?

336. Where are pearls chiefly found?

337. What commodities do the Portuguese draw from eastern Africa?

338. Of what class does the population of Russia chiefly consist?

339. What is a monarchy ?

340. What is the most populous empire in the world?

341. Where are the greatest salt mines in the world?

342. With what commodities do the West Indies supply the greatest part of Europe?

343. By what body of men is British India governed?

344. Why is Japan so little known?

345. What is the cause of the decline of the Turkish empire ?

346. What great ruined cities are there in Syria?

347. Why are the villages of Palestine visited? 348. What is the nature of a republic?

349. What are the chief exports from the United States?

350. What is the greatest manufacturing country in the world?

351. How did Sweden acquire Norway?

352. What are the two races in the Oriental Archipelago?

353. For what are the people of Otaheite remarkable?

354. How have the Sandwich Islands been improved?

355. How have the ancient edifices of Nubia been constructed?

356. What sort of people are the Abyssinians? 357. To what atrocious acts have the States of Barbary been addicted?

358. For what is Florence remarkable?

359. What is the greatest republic in the world? 360. How is Russia governed?

361. What are the causes of the decline of Spain? 362. What is remarkable in Athens?

363. Where are the chief mines of Hungary? 364. How did Greece become an independent kingdom?

365. What is the character of the Galla? and how do they ornament themselves?

366. What people inhabit Houssa, in central Africa? and whence did they come?

367. In what production does New Holland excel? 368. What is the character of the New Zealanders?

369. Where is the finest coffee grown?

370. How has the king of Cochin-China made such great conquests?

371. What do the followers of the Lama believe?

372. When it is noon at Calcutta, what hour is it at Mexico?

373. How do the Laplanders travel over the snow?

374. What is the most southerly point of Hindoostan?

375. Whence is opium procured?

376. What was the great empire formerly established in Hindoostan?

377. What is the chief product of Siberia?

378. Suppose a canal were cut across the isthmus of Suez, through what seas would vessels sail from England to Bombay?

379. What is the character of the Scotch?

380. Wherein consists the chief wealth of Sweden ?

381. Where are the frigid zones situated?

382. Into what three classes are Christians divided?

383. What constitutes an university?

384. What is the colour of the American Indians?

385. What is the nature of the trade winds? 386. What is the religion of the Birman empire? 387. How are the tides occasioned?

388. What is peculiar in sea-water?

389. What is the nature of the monsoons ? 390. What is the climate of Terra del Fuego? 391. Why is the heat temperate in islands? 392. How near did Captain Weddell approach the South Pole?

393. What is the climate on the top of high mountains, even under the equator?

394. What nation work the gold mines of Borneo? 395. Where does the Mahommedan religion prevail ?

396. How far does the torrid zone extend?

397. Where is the greatest cod fishery in the world?

398. What religion do the Hindoos profess? 399. To what wicked actions does superstition prompt them?

400. In what country does it almost never rain? 401. What are the most remarkable public works in China?

402. What is the character of the Kirghises? 403. What is the literary character of the Persians?

404. In what city is the tomb of Mahomet? 405. What are the chief productions of Sumatra ? 406. What is the colour of the Chinese? 407. What is the situation of the temperate zones?

408. What is the rainy season in Bengal?

409. Why is the west wind usually accompanied with rain?

410. What is the object of academies ?

411. What is the nature of a despotic government?

412. What is the chief city of Independent Tartary?

413. What is the name of the country discovered by Captain Ross?

414. What is the character of the Zoolas? 415. What trade is carried on at Sincapore?

416. What is the religious language of Mohammedan countries?

417. What are the chief productions of Turkey in Asia?

418. In what village does the king of Holland reside?

419. What are the chief exports of Spain? 420. What group of islands was discovered by Captain Parry?