A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . ystation on Grand river, among the Osages of the Arkansas, es-tablished in 1820. The moral and religious improvement ofArkansas is going on, through the instrumentality of the Metho-dists, Baptists, and the Cumberland Presbyterians. The Districtof Ozark lies west of this territory, and contains 83,000 squaremiles. QUESTIONS. What are the boundaries of Aricafrsas^ Its fexjent and population? Its principalrivers? By w


A system of modern geography : for schools, academies, and families : designed to answer the twofold purpose of a correct guide to the student, and of a geographical reading book . ystation on Grand river, among the Osages of the Arkansas, es-tablished in 1820. The moral and religious improvement ofArkansas is going on, through the instrumentality of the Metho-dists, Baptists, and the Cumberland Presbyterians. The Districtof Ozark lies west of this territory, and contains 83,000 squaremiles. QUESTIONS. What are the boundaries of Aricafrsas^ Its fexjent and population? Its principalrivers? By what mountains is it traversed? Descfihe the eastern part The westem. What is the soil? Where is the land the richest7 What are the produc-tions? In what do tlie prairies abound? What animals range over them?? Whatkmd of spnnffs are found in this territory? Describe the salt region. How manycounties in Arl^sas? What and where is the capital town? Where is the town olArliansas? Where are Dwight and Union, the two missionary stations ^ Whprf i>!FortSmitM Spadra? Cadron? Davidsonville? Batesville? Whar relkious «!ep shere ? Where is the Di^^trict of Ozark 1 reo^ious sects. Wild Horses. MISSOURI TERRITORY. Square miles, 800, territory is a vast wilderness, resembling a desert, ex-tending from the state of Missouri and the river Mississippi, to 100 OREGON TERRITORY, the Rocky mountains. It is a region of open elevated plains,generally destitute of forest trees, and interspersed with barrenhills. It is inhabited almost exclusively by various tribes of Indians,and traversed by herds of wild horses and buffaloes, which insome instances range by thousands in a drove, appearing almostto cover the face of the ground. The huge grisly bear inhabitsthe Rocky mountains. Wild game, in great variety, aboundsin this territory, more, perhaps, than in any other part of theworld; and on this account, it has been styled the paradise ofhunters. Vast quantities of bufialo skins and furs are


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