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?