School gardening and nature study in English rural schools and in London . clays and sands they encounter during open-airlessons on Hampstead Heath. It was too misty to recognize all of the 13counties—and goodness knows how many battlefields, cathedrals, and townswhich are said to be visible from this old Armada Beacon—but the youngestboy could not help seeing that Herefordshire in the west was very hilly, whilethe Severn Plain in the east was a most decided and extensive plain, and anattempt was made to explain the why and wherefore by the aid of diagramsin the guidebook in a short ten-miante
School gardening and nature study in English rural schools and in London . clays and sands they encounter during open-airlessons on Hampstead Heath. It was too misty to recognize all of the 13counties—and goodness knows how many battlefields, cathedrals, and townswhich are said to be visible from this old Armada Beacon—but the youngestboy could not help seeing that Herefordshire in the west was very hilly, whilethe Severn Plain in the east was a most decided and extensive plain, and anattempt was made to explain the why and wherefore by the aid of diagramsin the guidebook in a short ten-miante lesson. Good specimens of quartz, hornblende, schist, gneiss, chlorite, and diorite wereobtained from the numerous quarries on the hillside, after which a descentwas made to the uptilted Silurian rocks, which yielded very beautiful fossilcorals. Tea was taken at Colwall Temperance Hotel before taking the trainfor Abergavenny, which was visited at 9 p. m. Here a hot supper and awarm welcome awaited the boys, and before 11 p. m. they were all safelytucked in Fig. 10.—Lonjr-distanee vacation journey,Kentish Town Road School, London. 99 WORK DONE. 1. Boys taught bow to turn a railway journey to profitable account. 2. Introduction to igneous rocks and tbe scenery they produce. .. Fossil corals obtained and formation of coralline limestones Igneous rock specimens secured. ^ # :?: ? sk % • H* The following extract from a report in the Brecon County Times isinteresting as showing how the long distance journey strikes onewho is not a teacher: The schoolmaster was abroad to good purpose; mountain and pass, hill anddingle, river and rivulet, forest and hedgerow, lake and meadow, cave andcromlech, church and castle, ancient road and modern rail—all were laid undertribute for the educational intake of the week. Tbe writers recollection ofhistory lessons in early years is a hotchpotch of memorized names and dates,with which examination papers were to be liber
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