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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...of the rivers, the ranges of 166 Mental Ttbiqctity. mountains, the forms of States, their magnitudes, and their relative positions, one to another--it will become a source of wonderful interest. Take, for instance, the Mississippi River, and it would be an excellent exercise for the pupils to tell through what States it flows, and to what States it gives boundary-lines, east or west; and what States, situated on each side of that river, are lying over against each other. Another good lesson would be to imagine the school situated in some State, and let it be determined in what direction, as a whole, any one State were located, with reference to that particular one, where the pupils for the time are supposed to be located; and that would enablo them to travel, at least by imagination, with many of the banefita and none of the drudgeries of actual travel. We may appeal to those who have traveled largely, until the whole United States, or a considerable portion of the territory, has become as familiar to them as the blocks and wards of their own city, or the districts and neighborhood of their town, and ask them whether this knowledge is not a source of great gratification, as they sit by the fireside, and in imagination retrace all their wanderings. This knowledge may be obtained at home, at least in the abstract; and though a man, when he has seen Cincinnati leaning against, and reposing upon, the beautiful hills that lift their heads high above the river; or having been in Pittsburgh, he can seem to see the great central promontory between the two rivers, with the struggling endeavors of the city to climb its steep sides; and the black hill that lies like a cloud westward of the city, made luminous in the dark night by the fire of many furnaces; while its b...

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