1. Derive and define continent, ecliptic, latitude, longitude, plateau, tropic, zone.

2. Name the counties which touch the sea on the south coast of Ireland, and on the east coast of Scotland, with the chief town of each and the river on which it stands.

3. In what counties, and on what rivers, are the following towns, and for what are they noted:Lincoln, Sunderland, Carlisle, Gloucester, Preston, Limerick, Londonderry, Waterford?

4. What places in the United Kingdom are the chief seats of the manufacture of cotton and linen goods; and from what countries are the raw materials of those goods chiefly derived ?

5. What is meant by a tributary to a river? Name some tributaries of the Thames and of the Severn.

6. Give a concise geographical description of Yorkshire, Devon, or Kent.

7. Enumerate the British possessions south of the equator.

8. On a certain breakfast table there were tea, coffee, sugar, salt, pepper; where did each of these articles probably come from in the first instance?

1. Express the number 2300025015 in words; and write in figures the sum of nine millions ninety thousand nine hundred and nine.

2. Goods were bought for £560 15s. 6d.; there was further paid for packing £1 10s.; for carriage £12 6s. 8d.; and for import duty £3 8s. 6d. The goods were then sold for £655 8s. 5d. What was the profit on the transaction?

3. Reduce 574 pints to bushels, pecks, gallons, and quarts.

4. Add together 1, 2, 3, 4. Also multiply together 4, 2, 31, and divide the product by 1%.

5. Reduce to vulgar fractions 072 and 1.483. Divide 07 by 14 and by '014.

6. Divide £11705 12s. 6d. by 100.

7. Find by practice the cost of 2 cwt. 1 qr. 20 lbs. 4 oz. at £1 17s. 4d. per quarter.

8. Find the cost of a ton of sugar at åd. per lb., of an ounce of tea at 5s. 8d. per lb., and of a peck of flour at £3 per quarter.

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9. A coach travels 7 miles an hour; will it have gone between 10.15 a.m. and 5.45

1. If a = 1, b = 2, c = 0, d4, find the value of

{ b2 — (c + a)2 } — {d — (a — b — c)}

and the L.C.M. of 2 (a2b — ab3), 6 (a3b — b3),

7. Divide a yard into two parts, such that half of one part with 22 inches may be double the other part.

1. Define the following:-superficies, rhomboid, gnomon and parallel straight lines.

2. The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another; and if the equal sides be produced, the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal to one another.

3. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.

4. If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and have one side equal to one side, viz., sides opposite to equal angles in each, the remaining sides shall be equal each to each, and the third angle of the one to the third angle of the other.

5. Divide a given straight line into two parts such that the rectangle contained by the whole and one. part may be equal to the square on the other part.

6. In an isosceles triangle ABC, prove that the straight line AD, which bisects the vertical angle a, also bisects the base BC, and is perpendicular to it.

JOSHUA, AND JUDGES I.-XVIII.

1. Give the history of the siege of Ai.

2. To what tribe did Caleb belong? What place did he choose as his portion? State what you know of him. Where did Joshua fix his residence?

3. Give some account of the state of things that arose after the death of Joshua, and explain the name "Bochim."

4. Explain the following terms:-cities of refuge, Nazarites, groves, teraphim, ephod, hewers of wood and drawers of water.

5. Explain the meaning of the name "Gilgal," and describe particularly what occurred when the Israelites first encamped there.

6. Relate the parable of Jotham, and the circumstances under which it was spoken. Did it differ in any respect from the parables of the Gospels?

7. Where were the following and what mention is made of them:-Achor, Waters of Merom, Shechem, Shiloh ?

8. Explain briefly, with reference to the context:

:

(i.) "My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD GOD of Israel, and make confession unto Him; and tell me now what thou hast done."

(ii.) "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness."

"Now know I that the LORD will do me