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551 What is the circumference of a grass plot whose dia meter is 88 yards, and what relation does it bear to

an acre?

552 How does the constitution of England secure liberty and good government; and where are the public rights of the people recorded?

553 How many kinds of law are there?

554 How were sea voyages performed before the invention of the compass?

555 How many merchant vessels are employed in the trade of Great Britain, what is the annual value of the exports and imports, and how many people does its trade employ

558 Describe the triumph of mechanics.

557 How was light let into houses before the composition of flint and soda ?

558 What is a square, a triangle, an ellipse, a diagonal, a tangent, a sine, a co-sine, and a hexagon ?

559 Repeat Mallet's description of a volcano,

560 Repeat Thomson's description of an ignis fatuus. 561 Illustrate the terms used in chemical processes.

562 Put some small pieces of paper in motion by electricity

563 Repeat Cowper's lines on flowers.

564 How many kinds of arguments are there? 565 Repeat Thomson's lines on bees.

566 Describe the principal carths.

567 What is the process of filling a balloon ?

568 What are the mineral waters, and how are their kində ascertained?

569 Describe some of the characteristics of animalcula 570 Describe that animal which is not killed but multiplied by being cut to pieces.

571 Show the vibrations of sound by experiment.

572 What membrane vibrates in the throat in speaking or anging?

573 When was the style altered, and how many days had then been gained in reckoning ?

574 Which montis have numbers for their derivation, which the gods, which men, and which a corresponding term?

375 Range in three columns the English days of the week, their derivation, and the Roman names.

576 Under what names was Jupiter known to different an. cient nations?

577 How many kinds of mathematical sciences are there? 578 What will occasion, and what will destroy polarity? 579 Make a microscope without glass.

580 What are the names and purposes of the various instra ments for observing variations in the weather?

581 Describe the causes of winds, clouds, hail, rain, snow, and dew.

582 What is an echo?

583 What do botanists call fruit, and what is the object of

fruit ?

584 Describe the most populous nation of Asia.

585 Shew by experiment the causes of the different lengths of day and night.

586 How is the distance of the sun, moon, and planets calculated?

587 What is the angle of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the elliptic ?

588 How many trades are requisite to build and furnish a house?

589 Describe the moon.

590 Describe the fixed stars.

591 Describe the sun.

592 Describe the earth.

593 Draw a solar system extending to Saturn in such proportion, that the distance of Mercury be taken at half an inch.

594 If a man has robbed me on the highway, how am I to proceed against him by the laws of England? 595 How many different measures of versification are there? 596 Which is the largest, the ale or the wine gallon, and how many cubic inches are there in a pint of each: and if a pint weigh a pound, how much does a hogshead of each weigh?

597 What is the numerical value of

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to 16; e to 6; and d to 10.

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the former. The difference will be the value.

458 To what faculty is man indebted for his mprovements ♪ 599 Describe all the metals.

600 Describe the varieties of the human species.

C01 Make a formal syllogism, to prove that study is the proper employment of youth.

602 By the scale of mountains, on the maps, page 116, which appears to be highest, the peak of Teneriffe or Mont Blane; and the city of Quito or Snowdon,'and what are the differences?

603 How often must Snowdon be piled on Snowdon to make a Mont Blane or a Chimboraço ?

C04 Point on the map to London, Jamaica, Calcutta, Philadelphia, Pekin, and Jerusalem.

005 Name all the countries between the tropics in each hemisphere.

606 Name all the countries in the north temperate zone. 607 Point out the orbits of the Asteroids, or newly-discovered planets, in the plate of the universe.

con What is the name of that planet accompanied by seven moons, and of that by six moons ?

609 Point out the orbits of the comets.

G10 How many planets, asteroids, moons, and comets, are represented in the plate P

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