The normal; or, Methods of teaching the common branches, orthoepy, orthography, grammar, geography, arithmetic and elocution .. . assuming any object on a horizontalline with the globe for a sun. Turn the globe onits axis, from west to east, it is seen that the pin atBoston comes under the assumed sun before thepin at New Orleans. 56. VIII. MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES. Take a narrow tape, and make it the same lengthof the equator on the globe. Divide by foldinginto 5 equal parts. Mark with pencil or pen thesedivisons. In the same manner subdivide these di-visions into 5 other equal parts. Call ea
The normal; or, Methods of teaching the common branches, orthoepy, orthography, grammar, geography, arithmetic and elocution .. . assuming any object on a horizontalline with the globe for a sun. Turn the globe onits axis, from west to east, it is seen that the pin atBoston comes under the assumed sun before thepin at New Orleans. 56. VIII. MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES. Take a narrow tape, and make it the same lengthof the equator on the globe. Divide by foldinginto 5 equal parts. Mark with pencil or pen thesedivisons. In the same manner subdivide these di-visions into 5 other equal parts. Call each 1000miles. Again divide these as many times as con-venient. A scale is now made by which distances, fromplace to place, may be ascertained, the comparativelength of different routes or voyages knpwn, , as fast as ascertained, should be committedto memory, or written down for future is found to be an amusing and instructiveexorcise, valuable in family or school, to keep chil-dren out of mischief, and to imprint on theirminds some of the most important geograpicalknowledge. USE OF 24a. I—( This instrument is designed to illustrate all thephenomena resulting from the relations of the Sun,Moon and Earth, to each other. The most impor-tant of these phenomena are the succession of dayand night; the change of seasons ; the change ofthe Suns declination ; the different lengths of dayand night; the rising of the Sun north of east insummer; the changes of the Moon ; solar and lu-nar eclipses ; spring and neap tides; the laterdaily recurrence of the tides; the length of days 250 GEOGRAPHY. on the Moon; the appearance of the Earth to ob-servers on the Moon ; the harvest Moon; the dif-ference of a synodical and sidereal revolution of themoon ; the precession of the equinoxes and thedifference of a solar and sidereal year. All thesephenomena may be explained by the Tellurian,with a simplicity that brings them within the com-prehension of a child. Be
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