Q. What did the Spaniards obtain in America?
A. Great riches.

Q. What do we get from Spain?

A. Wine and raisins.

Q. What have the Germans invented?

A. Printing, Watches, and Gunpowder.

Q. What is every man in Prussia obliged to do?

A. Every man is obliged to serve as a soldier for three years.

Q. What law in Prussia respecting the attendance of children at school?

A. Every boy and girl is obliged to attend school, none being allowed to stay away except on account of sickness.

Q. For what is Switzerland famous ?

A. For the manufacture of Clocks and Watches.

Q. What can you say of the Snow on the Alps? A. Great quantities of snow, called Avalanches, sometimes rush down the sides of the mountains.

Q. What danger attends these Avalanches?

A. They often bury whole villages with their inhabitants.

Q. What celebrated man 'was a native of Switzerland ?

A. William Tell, who fought bravely against the enemies of his country.

Q. For what is Italy noted?

A. For the beauty of its scenery, and the mildness of its climate.

HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF EUROPE.

Q. For what are the Italians famous ?

A. For Painting, Sculpture, and Music.

Q. What celebrated Church in Rome?

A. St. Peter's, the largest church in the world.
Q. How long were they engaged in building this church?
A. One hundred and eleven years.

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Q. Of what Religion are the Turks ?

A. Mohammedans.

Q. Why are they called Mohammedans ?

A. Because they are followers of Mohammed.

Q. How do the Turks sit and eat?

A. They sit on cushions or carpets, and eat without

knives or forks.

Q. What is the Emperor of Turkey called?

A. The Sultan.

Q. What are obtained from Italy?

A. Oil, Wine, Silk, Figs, Dates, and Almonds.

Q. For what is Athens noted?

A. It is the birth-place of some of the most celebrated Orators, Philosophers, and Artists.

What Gulf opens into the northern part of the Arabian Sea? Pn. What joins Africa with Asia?

What Country in the northern part of Asia?

What Empire south of Siberia?

What is the south-eastern part of the Chinese Empire called? Ca What Country in Asia is farthest south-west?

What Country farthest west?

LESSON CXXVII.

What Country between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal ?

Between what two Seas is Turkey?

Between what Sea and Gulf is Arabia ?

Between what Sea and Bay is Hindoostan?

What Sea north of Persia?

What Gulf south of Persia ?

What Strait at the entrance of the Red Sea ?

What Strait at the entrance of the Persian Gulf?

What Strait between Malacca and Sumatra ?
What Strait between Sumatra and Java ?
What small Sea east of the Caspian Sea?
In what country is the Aral Sea?
What Empire east of the Chinese Empire?
Which is the largest of the Japan Islands?
What Sea west of Japan?

What Sea north?

What Island north of Niphon?

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