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( S ' Moles give their skin , and they make drains . ' Squirrels give their fur ; they are eaten / His next work was on the uses of plants ; for instance : ' Wheat . We eat the seed ,, and the stalk is called straw , and it is put into farm-yards to make beds for the cattle , and it is made into hats , and mats , and other things . ' ' Rushed . The stalk is made into baskets and seats of chairs , and the pith is made into the wicks of candles . '
After he had gone through all the plants he knew of , in this way , naming the uses of each of its parts , the lesson was turned round , and he had to answer : c What stalks are of use ?'— Rhubarb , rushes , flax , wheai
&c . &c . c What leaves are of use ?'— Cabbage , lettuce , tea , cocoa-tree , &c ' . ' What seed vessels are of use V— Apple , orange , melon ,, &c . &c . 4 What seeds are of use V— Peas , walnut , coffee , com , &c . &c . ' This carried on would lead to a knowledge of manufactures
and of science too ; but manufactures would of course precede , as being so conveniently within the reach of childish comprehension . The natural history of animals was very much to A . ' s taste , and often he preferred drawing pictures , and writing descriptions and anecdotes of them , to what he called play .
When he had got on pretty well with the above realities , S . thought it time to initiate him into the mysteries of geography , history , French , and Latin . Geography she taught him in the following manner . We quote it as being not perfect , but good in some respects , and of some value , as being experimental . He would draw a map of Africa , for instance ; and then she told him things about it , of which the following is his recollection : — 6
Africa is very hot and very sandy , and the negroes are carried to America and made slaves . Many of the Africans do not know much . The Kgyptians knew more than the rest of the world many hundred years ago . There are camels in Africa , and camelopards , and lions , and elephants , ostriches , wild dogs ,
leopards , gazelles , buffaloes , hippopotami , rhinoceri , monkeys , locusts , ants , snakes , and many other animals . There are in Africa palm-trees , ( on which grow cocoa-nuts , ) and acacias , and tamarinds , and cotton-trees , and many other trees ; and wheat , rice , millet and maize grow there ; a great deal of bread is made of manise root . '
The river Nile is supposed to be 2 , 000 miles long ; it runs over tlie banks every year , which does good to the land . It had once » ttven mouths ; five are nearly choked up with sand . The sphynx , the pyramids , the ruins of Thebes , are in Egypt . ' Then conies as an afterthought : * There are zebras , and crocodiles , and the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 863, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/45/
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