. 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. ommercial intercourse withother nations. The connection between the physical characterof a country and the history of its people is most intimate. As we take up the individual events of history, an accurateknowledge and expression of the physical features becomes av»ry important part in the thorough study of causes and teacher who has ever used the molding-board in the courseof a lesson in history
. 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. ommercial intercourse withother nations. The connection between the physical characterof a country and the history of its people is most intimate. As we take up the individual events of history, an accurateknowledge and expression of the physical features becomes av»ry important part in the thorough study of causes and teacher who has ever used the molding-board in the courseof a lesson in history will ever return to that senseless memoriz-ing and repeating of meaningless words so long forming the bulkof this work in our common schools. Take, for example, the early history of the Western part ofPennsylvania. The long parallel ridges of the Alleghanies seemed,like huge fences, to confine the English people to the countryeast of the mountains. The pasture of the eastern slopes of themountains was not, however, to be the limit. In 1754 the gov-ernor of Virginia sent Washington to take possession of the fT: III P .III II II fill ^-?^ ?^^ ^^^t^ r^ ii-: i ^ r - a: STniW;^- ep\. ,^Hy
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