INTRODUCTION ΤΟ GEOGRAPHY AND THE USE OF THE GLOBES, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. BY JAMES CHARLTON, MASTER OF THE ANCHORAGE SCHOOL, GATESHEAD. NEWCASTLE: PRINTED BY T. AND J. HODGSON; AND SOLD BY E. CHARNLEY, (Price 3s. 6d. bound.) 1829. PREFACE. THE plan of this work comprehends, two distinct courses of geographical instruction. The first is comprised in the larger type, together with the tabu"lar divisions of countries; the second embraces, along with these, the information contained in the smaller type. The questions for examination are also printed in type of two sizes; the larger of which referring to the first course, and the smaller to the second. It is intended that the whole of that portion of the work which is printed in the larger type should be committed to memory, except when the pupil is very young, or his time limited, in such cases a considerable proportion may be dispensed with, by an attentive perusal, and a reference to maps. The information contained in the type of smaller size should be carefully read over, and the questions adapted to it answered in the pupil's own language. The practice of putting questions to the pupil upon those portions of a book which he has studied, is the most effectual of all methods to fix in his mind the knowledge which he has acquired; and, that this may be done to the most advantage, the teacher |