ESSON XII.

Q. What three Oceans around North America?

A. Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific.

Q. What Country furthest north?

A. Greenland.

Q. What Country furthest south?

A. Central America.

Q. In what Country do we live?

A. In the United States.

Q. What Country north of the United States?

A. British America.

Q. What Country south of the United States?

A. Mexico.

Q. What Country in the northwest?

A. Russian America.

Q. What Peninsula in the south?

A. Yucatan.

LESSON XIII.

Q. Between what two Oceans is the United States?

A. Atlantic and Pacific.

Q. What Bay west of Greenland?

A. Baffin's Bay.

Q. What Bay in British America?

A. Hudson's Bay.

Q. What large Sea southeast of North America?

A. Caribbean Sea.

Q. Which are the largest two Countries of North America?

Q. Between what two Countries is the United States?

Q. In what Country is Hudson's Bay?

Q. Between what two Countries is Baffin's Bay?

Q. What large Island southeast of the United States?

Q. Where is Cape Farewell?

LESSON XIV.

Q. What large Gulf south of the United States?

A. Gulf of Mexico.

Q. Where is the Gulf of Mexico?

A. South of the United States.

Q. What two great Rivers in the United States?

A. Mississippi and Missouri.

[Illustration: Icebergs near Greenland.]

Q. What Mountains in the western part of N. America?

A. Rocky Mountains.

Q. Where are the Rocky Mountains?

A. In the western part of N. America

Q. What Island east of Greenland?

A. Iceland.

Q. Where is Iceland?

LESSON XV.

NORTH AMERICA.

Q. By whom was America discovered?

A. By Columbus; about 360 years ago.

Q. What kind of People did he find here?

A. Dark-colored Savages.

Q. What did Columbus name them?

A. Indians.

[Illustration: Columbus discovering America.]

Q. After whom was America named?

A. A man named Americus.

Q. What can you say of the Northern part of N. America?

A. It is very cold.

Q. What of the Southern part of N. America?

A. It is very warm.

[Illustration: MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.]

LESSON XVI.

Q. How many States are there? 31.

Q. How are they divided?

A. Into Eastern, Middle, Western, and Southern States.

Q. Which is the largest State?

A. Texas.

Q. Which is the smallest State?

A. Rhode Island.

Q. What State on the Pacifi