1. Is our knowledge of Africa as extensive as of other countries? 2. What countries lie in the northern part? 3. What countries on the coast of the Red Sea? 4. What countries in the southern part? 5. What in the interior? 6. What deserts in the northwestern part? 7. In the eastern? 8. Where is Liberia? 9. How is Egypt bounded?

10. What mountains are in the western part of Africa? 11. What mountains in the interior? 12. Where is Mount Atlas? 13. Table mountain?

14. What Lake lies in the interior of Africa? 15. Where is Lake Moravi?

16. What Sea lies north from Africa? 17. Where is the Red Sea? 18. The Gulf of Guinea? 19. Lagoa or Lorenzo bay? 20. Table bay? 21. Gulf of Sidra?

22. Where is Mozambique channel? 23. Straits of Gibraltar? 24. Straits of Babelmandel?

25. What is the northern cape of Africa? 26. What two capes at the southern extremity? 27. Where is Cape Guardafui? 28. What capes are on the coast of Zahara? 29. What are the northern and southern capes of Madagascar?

30. By what means are springs and rivers supplied with water? 31. Where does the Nile rise? 32. What is its course? 33. Into what does it flow? 34. Near the mouth of what river is Cape Verd? 35. In what part of Africa is Orange river? 36. The Gambia river? 37. Where is the Niger river? [The Niger river flows east, but its mouth has not been discovered.]

38. What islands lie east from Morocco? 39. Where is Madagascar? 40. What islands west from Madagascar? 41. Where is St. Helena? 42. For what is St. Helena remarkable? 43. Which way from St. Helena is Ascension?

44. What cities are situated at the mouth of the Nile? 45. Which way from Cairo is Monrovia? 46. Where is Cape Town? 47. Through what towns do the caravans pass in their route between Tombuctoo and Morocco?

48. What proportion of Africa lies in the torrid zone? 49. By what is the torrid zone distinguished?

Little is known of the geography of Africa, and this is owing to the almost total want of navigable rivers, by which, in other countries, easy access is obtained to the interior. The desert character of the country is another obstacle.

Several enterprising travellers have penetrated Africa, to ascertain the sources of its rivers, and the state of the country; among whom, Bruce, Park, Denham and Clapperton stand conspicuous.

In no country do desert and fertile lands come in so close a neighborhood as in Africa. The northern part along the Mediterranean has a fertile soil, but immediately south is the great desert which is entirely devoid of vegetation. In other parts of Africa fertile spots may be found, on the margin of streams, or scattered in the midst of the almost uninhabitable Desert.

The most numerous class of inhabitants are the negroes, who inhabit almost the whole central and western parts of the country, except the Desert of Zahara. The moors inhabit the northern parts, and resemble in form and physiognomy, the natives of Europe. The Hottentots inhabit the southern extremity of the country. The wandering Arabs live on the Desert of Zahara, which they are enabled to traverse by the aid of the camel. This animal requires little food, and will live many days without a fresh supply of water.

Egypt was anciently a powerful nation, evidences of which exist in the ruins of buildings, catacombs and pyramids, which are numerous in the land. At present it is inhabited partly by barbarous tribes, and seems to have lost its ancient grandeur.

The climate of Egypt is exceedingly hot, and the air unrefreshed by rain. The soil is fertile when sufficiently moistened, and produces wheat, barley, corn, flax, sugar-cane, olives, dates, and oranges in abundance.

The only river is the Nile, and the possession of this river is an incalculable blessing to the country, as it serves the double purposes of internal communication, and watering the country. This river annually overflows its banks, in consequence of rain in the Abyssinian mountains, where it rises. It begins to rise about the middle of June, and spreads a muddy deluge to a great extent, on both sides of its channel. The waters subside to their natural bed in October, leaving a rich and wet manure on the surface of the ground. That part of the year called the winter months, is here the most productive, the ground being covered with vegetation, and is so fertile during the season that it yields three crops.

Sierra Leone, so named by the Portuguese because the mountains are infested with Lions, is an English settlement, which was commenced with a view to extend the benefits of civilisation and Christianity to the natives, and to afford a refuge for Africans rescued from slave ships. Freetown is the capital of the colony.

Liberia is the name given to a colony established by the American Colonization Society, on the western coast of Africa, three hundred miles southeast from Sierra Leone. Great numbers of the free people of color have removed from the United States to this settlement. Commerce and agriculture flourish, and efforts are made to extend the benefits of education and the christian religion through the colony, and to the natives. Monrovia is the chief town.