First Lessons in Geography eBook

James Grant (officer of arms)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 33 pages of information about First Lessons in Geography.

First Lessons in Geography eBook

James Grant (officer of arms)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 33 pages of information about First Lessons in Geography.

Q. What large Island southeast of Borneo?

A. Australia.

LESSON LI.

Asia.

Q. What Division of the Earth was first inhabited?

A. Asia.

Q. Who first lived in Asia?

A. Adam and Eve.

Q. What is the color of the Asiatics?

A. Yellow.

[Illustration:  Camels in a Desert.]

Q. What do many worship?

A. Idols.

Q. For what purpose did the Chinese build the Great Wall?

A. To defend themselves from their enemies.

Q. What animal is very useful in crossing the Deserts?

A. The Camel.

[Illustration:  Map of Africa.]

Lesson LII.

Q. What Division of land is Africa?

A. A Peninsula.

Q. Between what two Oceans is Africa?

A. Atlantic and Indian.

Q. What Division of the Earth north of Africa 2

A. Europe.

Q. What Sea north of Africa?

A. Mediterranean Sea.

Q. What Division of the Earth northeast of Africa?

A. Asia.

Q. What Sea east of Africa?

A. Red Sea.

Q. What Gulf west of Africa?

A. Gulf of Guinea.

Q. What large Island southeast of Africa?

A. Madagascar.

LESSON LIII.

Q. What Country in the northeastern part of Africa?

A. Egypt.

Q. What Country south of Egypt?

A. Nubia.

Q. What Country south of Nubia?

A. Abyssinia.

Q. Which are the largest two Rivers in Africa?

A. Nile and Niger

Q. With what Ocean is the Mediterranean Sea connected?

Q. With what Ocean is the Red Sea connected?

Q. What three Countries of Africa touch the Red Sea?

Q. What large River flows into the Mediterranean Sea?

Q. What large River flows into the Gulf of Guinea?

Q. On which side of Africa is Guinea?

LESSON LIV.

Q. What Desert in the northern part of Africa?

A. Sahara, or Great Desert.

Q. What Mountains in the centre?

A. Mountains of the Moon.

Q. What Isthmus joins Africa with Asia?

A. Isthmus of Suez.

[Illustration:  A Traveller attacked by a Crocodile.]

Q. What Country in Europe is nearest Africa?

A. Spain.

Q. What Strait between Africa and Spain?

A. Strait of Gibraltar.

Q. What Cape in the southern part of Africa?

A. Cape of Good Hope.

LESSON LV.

Q. What is Africa?

A. The warmest Division of the Earth.

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