A Geography of Massachusetts: For Families and Schools. Embracing 1. A Topographical View of the Towns of Each County ... 2. A General View of Each County. 3. A General View of the State ... |
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Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page vi - Paper be considered as North ; the Bottom, South ; the Right hand, East ; and the Left hand, West...
Page iii - Children are very early capable of describing the places, mountains, and rivers, which pass under their inspection. And they commonly do it with an enthusiasm, which shows, how lively an interest they take in the subject, and how deep an impression the peculiarities of new places make upon them. When they have learned, by actual perception, a few of the features of the face of the earth; at a period a little later, they are capable of feeling a similar interest in forming a cor.ception of places,...
Page ii - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page iv - In connexion with this, he is directed to read a description of the largest rivers, mountains, and seas ; and also to commit to memory some account of the character and manners of the principal nations. Perhaps he will now be required to learn the amount of exports and imports of the most...
Page iv - ... own neighborhood, and the boundaries of his own town, county, or state. Besides, he can get no adequate idea of the magnitude of the largest mountains and rivers in the world, except by comparing them with the mountains and rivers which he has seen, and of which he has formed some definite idea. In forming a conception of a distant mountain or river, which we have never seen, we proceed precisely as we do in forming a conception of any other magnitude. We fix upon something of the same kind,...
Page iii - When they have learned, by actual perception, a few of the features of the face of the earth ; at a period a little later, they are capable of feeling a similar interest in forming a conception of places, mountains, rivers, &c. from representation and description. Then commences the study of geography. This is a branch of learning, which has been more neglected, than its importance deserves ; whether we consider the value of the knowledge obtained, or whether we consider the adaptation of the study,...
Page 181 - That each town or district within this Commonwealth, containing fifty families, or householders, shall be provided with a teacher or teachers, of good morals, to instruct children in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and good behavior...
Page v - Or if that should be thought too particular, the instructor must supply the description, and the map begin with the pupil's own county or State, in which he will of course be most interested. From this he may proceed to the whole country or kingdom, and thence to the more general divisions of the earth. The maps will of course be reduced in their scale, and the descriptions grow less and less minute, as the places are further removed, or from any cause become less interesting. This presents the geography...
Page vii - ... adjoining towns, according to their difficulty. At reciting this second lesson, the shape of the town or towns may be drawn upon a variety of scales. This exercise will be found to be exceedingly useful, as a severe discipline of the mind is involved in producing accurate proportions. And the whole class should be kept constantly on the alert, in judging of the truth of the proportions between the several lines drawn by each one of them. When greater ease has been acquired in drawing, and several...