long, and the Ohio 10 hundred; how much longer is the Mississippi?

23. The Senegal is 9 hundred miles long; how much longer is the Ohio?

24. How much longer is the Mississippi than the Senegal?

25. The river Nile is 20 hundred miles long; how much longer is it than the Ohio?

26. The Connecticut is 4 hundred miles long; how much longer is the Nile?

27. The Senegal is 9 hundred miles long; how much longer is it than the Connecticut ?

SECTION III.

1. Dr. Franklin was born in 1706, and Frederic the Great in 1712; how old was Franklin when Frederic was born? (Appendix A.)

2. Edmund Burke was born 1730; how old was Franklin when Burke was born? (App. B.) 3. Dr. Franklin died in 1790; how old was he when he died?

4. Lord Byron was born in 1788, and died in 1824; how old was he when he died?

5. George Washington was first chosen President of the United States in 1789; how long was it before Franklin died?

6. How old was Byron when Washington was first chosen President?

7. William Pitt was born in 1759, and died in 1806; how old was he when he died? (App. C.) 8. How long from the birth of Franklin to the death of Pitt?

9. Independence was declared July 4th, 1776,

and Adams and Jefferson died July 4th, 1826; how long did they live after Independence was declared?

10. Frederic the Great died in 1786; how old was he when he died?

11. How many years longer did Franklin live than Frederic?

12. Washington was born in 1732, and died in 1799; how old was he when he died?

13. How much older was Franklin when he died than Washington ?

14. Franklin signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was born in 1706; how old was he then ?

15. Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the United States army, in 1775; how old was he at that time?

16. Bonaparte was born in 1769; how old was he when Washington died?

17. Bonaparte was declared Emperor in 1804; how old was he at that time?

18. Moses led the Israelites through the Red Sea 1491 years before Christ, and died 1451; how long did he live after crossing the Red Sea ?

19. John Baptist was beheaded after Christ 32 years, and the book of Revelation was written in 87; how long after John was beheaded ?

20. Adam was 930 years old when he died, and 130 when Seth was born; how old was Seth when Adam died?

21. Seth was 912 years old when he died; how long did he live after the death of Adam? 22. Seth was 105 years old when Enos was born; how old was Enos when Seth died?

23. Enoch was 365 years old when he was translated, and 65 when Methusaleh was born ; how old was Methusaleh when his father was translated?

24. Alexander the Great was born 356 years before Christ, and his father Philip was murdered 336 before Christ; how old was Alexander when his father died? (App. D.)

25. Alexander conquered Tyre 322 years before Christ; how old was he at that time?

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26. The city of Rome had 327 thousand inhabitants, one hundred and sixty years before Christ ; one hundred years previous to that, it had but 292 thousand; how much increase in one hundred years?

27. The United States had, in eighteen hundred and thirty, a population of 13 millions, and in seventeen hundred and ninety, 4 millions; how much did the population increase?

28. In eighteen hundred and thirty, we had in the United States 2000 thousand slaves, but in seventeen hundred ninety, only 100 thousand; how much did the slave population increase?

29. In eighteen hundred and thirty, there were in the United States, 21 hundred negroes one hundred years old, and 5 hundred whites; how many more negroes than whites?

30. George IV. King of England, reigned 10 years, and George III. 60; how much longer was his reign?

CHAPTER III.

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION.

[Note. The first and second sections of this chapter are omitted.]

SECTION III.

1. Samuel Butler was born in 1612, and died in 1680; his age was 16 years less than Dr. Franklin's; how old was Franklin? (Append. A.)

2. Dr. Beattie was born in 1735, and died in 1803; John Eliot, the Indian missionary, lived to be 18 years older than Beattie; how old was Eliot ?

3. Dr. Watts was born in 1674, and died in 1748; Sir Isaac Newton lived to be 11 years. older; how old was Newton? (Appendix, B, C.)

4. Miss Fanny Woodbury was born in 1791, and died in 1814; Miss Hannah Adams lived to be 53 years older; how old was Hannah Adams? (App. D, E.)

5. Samuel J. Mills died in 1813, aged 35; Henry Martyn was 2 years old when Mills was born; in what year was Martyn born? (App. F, G.)

6. John Milton was born in 1608, and died when he was 66 years old; he published his Paradise Lost 7 years before he died; in what year did he publish it? (Appendix, H.)

7. Sir William Jones, a celebrated scholar, was born in Wales, in 1746, and died at the age of 48, which was 11 years after the close of the Ameri

can Revolution; in what year did the Revolution close? (App. I.)

8. Dr. Samuel Johnson died one year after the close of the American Revolution, and was 75 years old; in what year was he born? (App. J.)

9. John Howard, a very benevolent man, died 7 years after the close of the American Revolution, aged 63; in what year was he born? (Ap. K.)

10. William Cowper was born in 1731, and died at the age of 69; he published his poem called the Task, 13 years before he died; in what year did he publish it? (App. L.)

11. The African Slave Trade commenced in the year 1500; the first settlement was made at Plymouth, Mass. 120 years after; in what year was Plymouth settled? A settlement was begun at Jamestown, Va. 13 years before the one at Plymouth; in what year commenced the settlement at Jamestown?

12. The American Colonization Society was formed in 1816; a law was enacted by the British Parliament 9 years previous, abolishing the Slave Trade in the British Empire; in what year was it abolished?

13. Peter the Great died just 50 years before the Revolutionary war commenced (1775), and was, at his death, 53 years old; in what year was he born? (App. M.)

14. Charles XII. was born 10 years after Peter the Great, and died at the age of 36; in what year was he born, and in what year did he die ? (Appendix, N.)

15. Wickliff, in 1350, was 26 years old, and lived after that 34 years; in what year was he