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    296 EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OE ARTS.

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    Hn The Ewgxish Woman's Jottrnax For July...

    3 . _Name the principal rivers in Great Britain and Ireland , in order of * hical successionwith the seas into which they fall .

    geograp , Stettin 4 . Specify , Odessa the , Helsing position fors s , B of ahi the a , Val following paraiso , p Charleston laces : —Bourdeaux , Batavia , , Rangoon Trieste * ,

    Muscatand Kurrachee . , prin 5 . ci Write pal , islands a short , with account some particulars of the Ionian respecting islands , their giving climate the names , commercial of the

    produce 6 . Enumerate , and inhabitants the states . hitherto comprehended under the title of the ( United 2 ) Within States the , classifying Mississii them valley as they or ( lie 3 . ) —( To 1 . ) the On west the of Atlantic the Rock seaboard y Moun- ;

    . pp ; , tains 7 . . From Distingui what sh other by a countries mark (*) besides those of the them United that are States slave has states the . l of raw cotton to Britain been hitherto , derived ? _JSTame , in , addition supp , any y

    the reg as 8 to ions . chief _JSTame warrant els charac ewhere the the Au teristics , expectation of strali which an of colonies climate the of climate a future of and Britain , soil produce supp , , and l specifying y of other and that the , material conditi in names the ons . case of , are its of prin each such - ,

    , eipal 9 . Among towns . localities of historic note in Britain , are Bannockburn , Culloden , Bosworth Towton , St Killie . Alban crankie ' s , Kunnymead and ICenilworth , ] _STaseb : y , name Flodden the , county Dunbar in , which Colchester each ,

    is situated , . , globe 10 . , Mak ( Europe e a , list Asia of , the & c ., ) princi stating pal , mountain in the case -chains of each in , each whether division its general of the east and west

    direction 11 . What is north are the and Monsoons south , or ? Where do . they prevail , and how is their prim 12 e Write characteristic a brief descri to be ption accounted of any for one ? of the following rivers- —stating its

    . and course any , general other particular character of of importance basin , chief : — tributaries , capability of navigation , ( # ) St . Lawrence .

    ( bS Yang-tsze-kiang . ( c ) _Nile . Give 13 . some State instances briefly the of chief particular causes countries to which or differences districts in of illustration climate are .

    duediffer 14 . strikin The indi l genous from those productions of the e ( astern vegetable half and of the animal lobe ) of . the Give _ISTew some World ex- ' amples of this g — y in the casemore especiallyof the food g -plantsand of the

    , , , domesticated 15 . What towns quadrupeds in the . British Islands are distinguished as seats of the following manufactures : —cotton , linen , woollen and worsted , silk , cutlery ,

    hardware 16 . Nam in e general in , and hical earthenware succession ? the countries that lie round the Mediterranean , Sea geograp and also the princi , pal commercial ports that are upon

    its shoreswith the ; particular locality of each . , To the Programme is attached an appendixcontaining , among

    , other valuable information , the " Examiners' Remarks" on the papers sent in . We quote from the remarks on the Examinations

    of 1862 : — The Examiner in Animal Physiology says : —— In the present _examination

    to with say a that great the increase papers in do the not number show of a proportionate candidates over advance last year in , merit I am . sorry No candidate passes with a first-class certificate ; 9 only obtain a second-class

    In less certificate the to bett say ; er that 13 apers a no third paper of -class this approaches year one ; the and gre the 18 at fail hi de ghest fect to obtain is of incomp those even le written that teness . It of last is exposi need year - _- -

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    296 Examinations Of The Society Oe Arts.

    296 _EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OE ARTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/8/