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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
Things which are equal to each other are equal to anything else.
To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by
the number of the feet. The product is the result.

Right you are. In the matter of geography this little book is
unspeakably rich. The questions do not appear to have applied the
microscope to the subject, as did those quoted by Professor
Ravenstein; still, they proved plenty difficult enough without that.
These pupils did not hunt with a microscope, they hunted with a
shot-gun; this is shown by the crippled condition of the game they
brought in:

America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey.
North America is separated by Spain.
America consists from north to south about five hundred miles.
The United States is quite a small country compared with some other
countrys, but is about as industrious.
The capital of the United States is Long Island.
The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfunlan and San francisco.
The principal products of the U. S. is earthquakes and volcanoes.
The Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelphia.
The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia.
Cape Hateras is a vast body of water surrounded by land and flowing
into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mason and Dixon’s line is the Equater.
One of the leading industries of the United States is mollasses, book-
covers, numbers, gas, teaching, lumber, manufacturers, paper-
making, publishers, coal.
In Austria the principal occupation is gathering Austrich feathers.
Gibraltar is an island built on a rock.
Russia is very cold and tyrannical.
Sicily is one of the Sandwich Islands.
Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the
Mediterranean Sea.
Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and green.
The width of the different zones Europe lies in depend upon the
surrounding country.
The imports of a country are the things that are paid for, the exports are
the things that are not.
Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days.
The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.

The chapter headed “Analysis” shows us that the pupils in our
public schools are not merely loaded up with those showy facts about

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