1. _What is diameter?_ 2. _What is circumference?_ 3. _How is the earth
proved to be a globe or round body?_ 4. _How many miles is it through
the centre of the earth?_ 5. _How many degrees round it?_ 6. _How many
miles round it?_ 7. If you were to sail from the island Owhyhee sixty
degrees in a westerly direction, at what cluster of islands would you
arrive? 8. _How many degrees east and west is longitude reckoned?_ 9.
What is the longitude of the New Hebrides?
10. Between what islands would a ship pass in sailing directly from
Otaheite to Van Dieman’s land? 11. What direction would a ship take in
sailing by the shortest route from Owhyhee to Canton? 12. Which way
would you sail by the shortest route from Madagascar to the Friendly
Isles? 13. Through what States would you pass in going from Mobile to
Cincinnati? 14. From Charleston to Albany? 15. St. Louis to Boston?
_The word_ ANTIP´ODES _means those people who live on the opposite side
of the earth, and have their feet under ours._ 16. The inhabitants of
what city of Asia are nearly antipodes to the citizens of New Orleans?
17. How many degrees further north latitude is Liverpool than Boston?
18. Madrid than Savannah? 19. Which is further south, Cape Town or Rio
Janeiro? 20. Which is further east, Algiers or St. Petersburg?
_There is a scale of miles attached to each map; thus on the map of
Massachusetts, if you wish to find the distance, in miles, from Boston
to Providence, you must measure the distance and compare it with the
scale, and it will be found to be about forty miles. Another method
is, to find the distance in degrees, and multiply the amount by 69½,
because 69½ English miles make a degree._
21. How many miles is it from Boston to Middletown, Con.? 22. From
Paris to London? 23. From London to Liverpool? 24. From Tombuctoo to
Morocco? 25. From Madagascar to New Holland?