51. Madagascar is 1,130 miles long, by 350 wide. Its area is 225,000 sq. miles, or equal to Spain and Portugal combined.

52. Cuba (5,800 sq. m.) is about the size of Tennessee; Hayti (28,000 sq. m.), of South Carolina; Jamaica (6,400 sq. m.) is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

53. 32,500 sq. miles, or about the size of Maine.

54. 7,600 sq. miles, being about equal to Massachusetts.

55. About 16,000 sq. miles, or equal to New Jersey and Massachusetts. 56. Long Island, N. Y.; area, 1,682 sq. miles. [15,000 sq. miles. 57. Marajo, or Joannes, at the mouth of the Amazon; area, about 58. Great Britain (including England, Scotland, and Wales), 89,600 sq. miles, or equal to Kansas and Maryland put together.

1. How is a river described geographically?

2. Which part of the world has the largest rivers?

3. Which is the largest and longest river, and how far navigable? 4. Which is the longest river in the Old World, and for what is it remarkable?

5. What large river flows into the Caspian Sea?

6. What very noted river in Palestine?

7. What river drains the great North American Lakes?

8. Name and give the approximate length of the largest tributary of the Mississippi?

9. What large rivers on the Pacific Coast of North America?

10. What river on the boundary between the United States and Mexico!

11. Name the two largest rivers of Europe?

12. Which is the largest river of Asia?

13. What large rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal ?

14. What river, noted in sacred History, flows into the Persian Gulf?

15. For what is the river Po remarkable?

16. Name the principal rivers of Siberia?

17. Where is the Niger river?

18. Which are the two largest Eastern tributaries of the Mississippi?

19. What river flows into Albemarle Sound?

20. In what directions, and through what countries, does the Rhine flow?

21. Name the principal tributaries of the Amazon?

22. What very large river in the southern part of South America? 23. For what, besides size and length, is the Mississippi noted?

24. What rivers have remarkable Deltas?

25. Name a few remarkable Cataracts?

LAKES.

26. What lake is the source of the Mississippi?

27. What are known as the five Great Lakes?

28. Name the three largest lakes in Central New York. 29. Where is Lake Tchad?

30. Which and where is the largest lake in Europe?

31. What lake is the source of the Nile?

32. Where is Lake Winnipeg?

33. What chain of lakes is drained by Mackenzie's River? 34. Where is Lake Geneva?

35. What lake is the largest yet discovered in Australia?

36. Which is the largest lake in Asia?

37. Where do you find the largest number of salt lakes?

38. Name six of the largest salt lakes.

39. Which is the deepest lake on the globe?

40. Which of the large lakes of the world is the most elevated?

41. How many lakes are there in the Alpine district?

42. What are the obstructions to navigation from the Gulf of St. Lawrence

to Lake Superior?

43. To reach New Orleans from Montreal by two ways, the ocean and the lake routes, through what waters would you pass?

44. What remarkable lake on the Island of Trinidad?

Locate the following straits; what do they connect and separate?