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GEOGRAPHY.

1. What is the great moderator of the temperature of counII. Questions proposed at the tries? Examinations.

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2. Mention those changes that, generally speaking, coincide with a difference of latitude, and also those that coincide with a difference of longitude.

3. State the chief city, and its situation, in each of the following States-Tuscany, Greece, Denmark, Saxony, and Baden.

4. What is the chief town of the Munster county north of the Shannon, and what is the chief town of the Connaught county east of the same river?

5. What would be the position of a person who, travelling from the tropic of Cancer northward along a meridian, stopped after he had gone 90° ?

6. Write out the heads of an easy lesson for a Third Class, on the mountains of Europe.

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1. Mention the various uses to which the bark of certain trees has been applied, with examples.

2. Give a brief outline of the points in which animals and plants agree, and those in which they differ in their vital functions.

3. Describe the Plantigrade animals, with examples.
4. Where is Bethany, and for what is it noted?

ARITHMETIC.

1. Find by Practice the cost of 493 yards of cloth, at £1 10s. 10d. per yard.

2. If the expenses of a family of 8 persons amount to £9 14s. for 14 weeks, how many weeks will £24 10s. support a family of 6 persons at the same rate?

3. Explain how you would lead children to solve mentally either of the following easy questions:

A person bought 10 lbs. of butter, at 5d. per lb.; at what price must he sell per lb. to gain half-a-crown?

Of what sum is 3s. nine times the fifth?

4. How many pence in the sum of of £1, and 4 of a shilling?

5. Write out the following bill in proper form, and give the amount of each item and of the whole :

Mrs. Jane Murphy bought of Patrick Smiley, 18 lbs. of loaf sugar, at 74d. per lb. ; 111⁄2 lbs. of coffee, at Is. 2d. 83 lbs. of tea, at 4s. 2d. per lb.; 34 oz. of pepper, at 3d. per lb. per .; oz. ; 2 qrs. 7 lbs. of moist sugar, at 398. per cwt; 25 lbs. of rice, at 3d. per lb.

GRAMMAR, &c.

II. Questions

1. Correct the following passage, and parse the words in proposed at the italics.

Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once;
And He that might the advantage best have took,
Found out the remedy.

2. Name the inflected parts of speech, and write down under

each its proper inflections.

3. Name some instances in which the present tense of the verb is used for the past.

4. What is meant by the reciprocal pronouns, and how are they formed? give a list of them.

5. What kind of verbs admit of the passive form, and why? 6. Exemplify in three short sentences the several meanings of the word court-also of the word craft.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. What are the four chief causes assigned for the diversity of appearances of the human family in different regions?

2. Of the 59 political divisions of Europe name the empires and also the kingdoms.

3. Describe the appearances the sun would present in the course of a year to a person stationed at the north pole.

4. What county of Leinster is entirely north of the Boyne? 5. Write out the heads of a first lesson on the drainage of North America.

6. State the position of each of the following places---Acapulco, Avignon, Bergen, Coblentz, Hobart Town, and Tornea.

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1. Mention the several portions of the British Islands inhabited by the Celtic race.

2. With what provision are certain fish furnished by which they are enabled to rise and sink in the water? Is there any, and what, contrivance analogous to this in birds?

3. State the composition of the Diamond, the Ruby, the Sapphire, and the Garnet.

4. Describe the situation of Nazareth, and state for what it is remarkable.

ARITHMETIC.

1. If 40 yards of cloth, 6 quarters wide, cost £25 48., how many yards, 5 quarters wide, can be had for £151 4s.? 2. Find by Practice the cost of 44 tons of coal, at 138. 10d. per ton.

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3. Explain how you would lead children to solve mentally either of the following easy questions :—

Of what quantity of tea is 12 oz., six times the tenth part?
If 35 candles cost 2s. 6d., what will be the cost of 56?

4. Find the difference between of 13 shillings, and of 14 shillings.

5. Write out the following bill in proper form, and give the amount of each item, and of the whole bill :

:

Mrs. Margaret Flynn bought of Mr. Peter Laphen, 233 lbs. of soap, at 34d. per lb.; 32 lbs. of candles, at 5d. per lb.; 18 lbs. of composite candles, at 10d. per lb.; 5 lbs. of starch, at 3d. per lb.; 11 lbs. of starch, at 2 d. per lb.; 14 lbs. of soap, at 32d. per lb.

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GRAMMAR, &c.

1. Correct the following passage, and parse it:

And now the years a numerous train have ran,
The blooming boy is ripened into man.

2. Write down six dissyllabic Latin prefixes, and explain their meaning by examples of their use in composition.

3. Conjugate fully through all persons and numbers the present, the past, and the perfect tenses of the intransitive verbs, lie (to rest), and lie (to speak falsely), and name the past tense of the transitive verb lay.

4. Write down the four personal pronouns of the second person, and the possessive adjective pronouns allied to them. 5. Explain, with examples, the several meanings or ap plications of the word sound.

6. Which is the correct orthography, befal or befall? Give the reason of your answer.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Name the gulfs, straits, and islands of the Baltic sea. 2. Mention the towns which are built at the mouths of the following rivers:-Slaney, Blackwater, Lee, Bann, Suir, Bandon, Shannon.

3. How would you illustrate the two-fold motion of the moon round the earth and round the sun?

4. Cork is in 51° 53′ 54′′ N. Latitude, and 8° 30′ W. Longitude; what would be the latitude and longitude of the end of a line passing from Cork through the earth's centre, and terminating in the other hemisphere?

5. Name a few of the largest shires of Scotland, with their situations.

6. Give some account of the independent state which lies APPENndix C. along the right bank of the Rhine, adjoining France.

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1. Name the first great class of vertebrate animals, and the orders contained under it, with examples.

2. Botanists distinguish several kinds of roots; name some of them, with examples under each.

3. Name the combustible minerals.

4. What is meant in Jewish history by the Sabbatical year, and how were the inconveniences which might naturally have attended its observance provided against?

ARITHMETIC.

1. Give the rule for stating and working a question in Compound Multiplication.

2. A sum of £273 17s. 8d. is to be divided among 35 persons, so that the first ten shall receive twice as much as the others-what will be the share of each?

3. There are provisions in a house for 24 persons for six months; how long will they last, if, at the expiration of two months, the number be reduced to 20?

4. Express in figures the number two-million-two-thousandand-two also the number twenty-million-two-hundred-thousand-and-twenty.

5. Write out the rule in Practice for finding the cost of a given number of articles, when the price is less than a shilling. Give two examples.

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GRAMMAR, &c.

1. Correct the following passage, and parse it:

For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown.

2. Write down the seven personal pronouns of the third son, and the possessive adjective pronouns allied to them.

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3. Conjugate fully through all persons and numbers, the present, the past, and the perfect tenses, of the intransitive verb fall, and name the past tense of the transitive verb fell.

4. Explain, with examples, the several meanings or applications of the word stock.

5. Which is the correct orthography, delf or delph ? Give the reason of your answer.

6. Write down six Saxon or English prefixes, and explain their meaning by examples of their use in composition.

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GEOGRAPHY.

1. When it is midnight at Rome, what is the hour in LimeExaminations. rick, the longitude of the former being 13o East, and of the

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latter 8° 31' West.

2. Describe the positions of the following places : Loango, Panama, Banda Oriental, Tahiti, Siam, Bohemia, New South Wales, and New Brunswick.

3. To what circumstance connected with the earth is the sailor indebted for the feast alluded to in these lines:The sailor sighs as sinks his native shore,

And climbs the mast to feast his eyes once more.

4. Name the counties of which the following are the chief towns-Ballyshannon, Downpatrick, Carrick-on-Shannon, Clonmel, Ennis, Castlebar, Tralee.

5. Give some account of the division into states of that portion of Europe lying between Austria, the Baltic Sea, and the German Ocean.

6. Name the islands which are in the British seas.

LESSON BOOKS.

1. What is meant by papilionaceous flowers, and what is peculiar in their habits? Give some examples.

2. Explain how iron is extracted from its ore.

3. Relate what you know of the life and labours of Oberlin. 4. What were the three great Jewish festivals on which the males of the nation were required to present themselves before the Lord, and what promise was made to the people in connexion with its observance ?

ARITHMETIC.

1. Give the rule for stating and working a question in Compound Subtraction.

2. A quantity of calico, measuring 243 yards, 3 quarters, 2 nails, is to be divided among 44 persons: what will be the share of each?

3. If 12 women and 8 girls can make up a number of dresses in 3 days of 12 hours each, how many women will be required to complete the same in 9 hours, one woman doing as much work as two girls?

4. Express in figures the number seven-hundred-and-sixtythousand-and-sixty-seven; also, the number seventy-millionsixty-seven-thousand-and-seventy-six.

5. Write out the rule in Practice for finding the cost of any number of articles, when the price of an article is given in shillings and pence. Give two examples.