. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. y of theHistory of a State. We have sought for main impressions, anddo not claim that there may not be a dash of misplaced color inthe picture. After all is said, the new education, in the teaching of thesubject, has passed beyond the mere microscopic accuracy ofchronological tables, and would grasp something of the philosophyof history. An old German proverb says, What goes into the mindthrough the eyes neve
. Map modeling in geography : including the use of sand, clay putty, paper pulp, plaster of Paris, and other materials : also chalk modeling in its adaptation to purposes of illustration. y of theHistory of a State. We have sought for main impressions, anddo not claim that there may not be a dash of misplaced color inthe picture. After all is said, the new education, in the teaching of thesubject, has passed beyond the mere microscopic accuracy ofchronological tables, and would grasp something of the philosophyof history. An old German proverb says, What goes into the mindthrough the eyes never comes out again. It is to such associa-tions of the concrete in teaching that the old Moravian school-master, Comenius, appealed when he gave to the world his * OrbisPictus. In our study of the state of Pennsylvania we shall be some-what arbitrary in our separation of the events into time-periods,although we have taken up four periods which were best suited toour own class-work. We would not in any way limit the seriesof maps to the four here given, and could wish these to be takenrather as suggestions than as models. Let us say, then, that the A Period of Local Development. ^19. Fig. 102. 220 Perrys Victory, third period shall extend from the close of the eighteenth centuryto the breaking out of the Civil War (1800—1861). (Fig. 102.) In the eastern section we find the United States Bank with itsfirst charter, extending from 1791 to 1811 ; then the reorganizedbank, from 1817 to 1836. Passing now to the western river, we find Aaron Burr (1806)expecting to draw recruits from the upper Allegheny to aid himin his ambitious designs to seize the Spanish possessions inMexico and establish himself in power as Cortez, had done be-fore him. The northwestern part of the state is overshadowed by thename of Perry. At Erie a fleet was built from the trees of thevirgin forest ; and, moving down to the w^estern end of the lake,the young commander, who had never seen a naval battle, gainedh
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