A Geography of Middlesex County: For Young Children : Embracing 1. a Short Typographical and Historical Sketch of Every Town, 2. a General View of the County, and the Employments of the People, 3. a Glossary, Explaining the Geographical and Other Difficult TermsHilliard and Brown, 1830 - 106 من الصفحات |
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... Nashua River is called interval land , and is very rich and fer- tile . There are no large stones on the interval land , not even large enough to make fences . It is very easy ploughing in such soil . On the banks of the river there ...
... Nashua River is called interval land , and is very rich and fer- tile . There are no large stones on the interval land , not even large enough to make fences . It is very easy ploughing in such soil . On the banks of the river there ...
الصفحة 60
... river is level and rich for farmers to cultivate ; but that which lies at a distance from it , is uneven . The ... Nashua , there are several mills for differ- ent purposes ; and the Nashua itself has several falls in its course along ...
... river is level and rich for farmers to cultivate ; but that which lies at a distance from it , is uneven . The ... Nashua , there are several mills for differ- ent purposes ; and the Nashua itself has several falls in its course along ...
الصفحة 62
... Nashua River . There are in this village several small mills , a paper - mill , and two cotton factories . A great many people work in these mills and factories , and live in the houses which have been built near them . A family of ...
... Nashua River . There are in this village several small mills , a paper - mill , and two cotton factories . A great many people work in these mills and factories , and live in the houses which have been built near them . A family of ...
الصفحة 84
... River rises in Worcester County and in the high lands of Ashby . It passes through Shirley , and empties into the Nashua about one third of a mile above the mouth of the Squanicook . Mystic River rises in Reading and Woburn and runs ...
... River rises in Worcester County and in the high lands of Ashby . It passes through Shirley , and empties into the Nashua about one third of a mile above the mouth of the Squanicook . Mystic River rises in Reading and Woburn and runs ...
الصفحة 85
... River is a large tributary to the Nashua . It rises in Ashby and in New - Hampshire , and flows through Townsend . It forms the boundary line between Shirley and Pepperell , and empties into the Nashua on the western border of Groton ...
... River is a large tributary to the Nashua . It rises in Ashby and in New - Hampshire , and flows through Townsend . It forms the boundary line between Shirley and Pepperell , and empties into the Nashua on the western border of Groton ...
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الصفحة ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة v - ... of all other subjects of education, to which their attention may be simultaneously or subse quently directed. iar illustration the meaning of a map, and inform him that the top is north, the bottom south, the right hand east, and the left hand west. Let him find on the map the town or the village, where he resides, and observe carefully its shape, its ponds, its rivers, and its hills or mountains. All these he is to draw from the map upon his slate or small black board, and to draw them over...
الصفحة v - ... mentioned in the book, as mills, or factories, ponds, streams, hills, or mountains. For recitations a large black board should be used at least three feet wide and three and a half feet long. This should be so placed that the pupil standing before it, may have his face to the north ; when, of course, his right hand will be to the east, his back to the south, and his lelt hand to the west.
الصفحة vi - If the class consists of several, let one be directed to draw the northern line of the town boundary. Another may be invited to criticise the execution, and then another may give his opinion. It may then with advantage be submitted to the judgment of the whole class, that any one who can detect an inaccuracy, may expose it. Let the eastern boundary now be drawn and subjected to the same critical examination and amendment ; and so of the other lines. A member of the class may then name the towns on...
الصفحة ii - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
الصفحة vii - ... adjoining towns, according to their difficulty. At reciting this second lesson, the shape of the town or towns may be drawn upon a variety of scales. This exercise will be found to be exceedingly useful, as a severe discipline of the mind is involved in producing accurate proportions. And the whole class should be kept constantly on the alert, in judging of the truth of the proportions between the several lines drawn by each one of them. When greater ease has been acquired in drawing, and several...
الصفحة ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned " j and also to an act, entitled " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, ' An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,'...
الصفحة v - ... quently directed. iar illustration the meaning of a map, and inform him that the top is north, the bottom south, the right hand east, and the left hand west. Let him find on the map the town or the village, where he resides, and observe carefully its shape, its ponds, its rivers, and its hills or mountains. All these he is to draw from the map upon his slate or small black board, and to draw them over and over again upon a variety of scales, till he can do it accurately from his memory and conceptions,...
الصفحة vii - ... before that is to them chronology. Having thus completed the pupil's own town, the next exercise may be one or more of the adjoining towns, according to their difficulty. At reciting this second lesson, the shape of the town or towns may be drawn upon a variety of scales. This exercise will be found to be exceedingly useful, as a severe discipline of the mind is involved in producing accurate proportions. And the whole class should be kept constantly on the alert, in judging of the truth of the...
الصفحة 64 - There are some good farms however in the town, and the soil is generally good for fruit-trees of all kinds, which are common in this...