Excerpt from Geography of Virginia
1. Trace the outline of Virginia on the map, and tell what object it resembles in shape.
2. Bound Virginia.
3. What river separates Virginia from Maryland?
4. What four mountain ranges lie on the boundary? In what general direction do the mountains of Virginia extend?
5. Into how many counties is the State divided? (100.)
6. Name the largest. (Rockingham.) What is its principal town? (Harrisonburg.) Find Harrisonburg. What mineral spring near it?
7. Name the smallest county. (Alexandria.) What important city is situated in this county? (Alexandria.) Find it on the map.
8. What two counties lie east of Chesapeake Bay?
9. What name is often given to this part of the State? (The Eastern Shore.)
10. Name the most northerly county. What is its chief town? (Winchester.) Find Winchester.
11. What is the most easterly county? The most westerly?
12. Which border Chesapeake Bay on the west?
13. Which lie on the Potomac?
14. Which touch North Carolina? West Virginia? Tennessee? Kentucky?
15. Point out the county in which you live, and bound it.
16. Name its chief city or town. Its farm products.
17. What streams drain it?
18. What ranges of mountains cross Virginia?
19. Name the mineral springs of Bath county. Of Rockingham county.
20. Into what does the Appomattox river empty? What rivers form the York?
21. The Dan and the Staunton rivers unite in the southern part of the State, and form the Roanoke river. In what county do they unite?
22. The Blackwater and the Meherrin rivers unite, in North Carolina, to form the Chowan river. The Chowan flows through North Carolina, and empties into Albemarle Sound.
23. What rivers of Virginia empty into Chesapeake Bay? In what general direction do they flow?
24. Describe the James, the most important river of Virginia.
25. What city on the James river, opposite Richmond?
26. Describe the Shenandoah river.
27. What branches of the Tennessee river rise in the southwestern part of the State? [H., C. and P.]
28. Where is Lake Drummond?
29. That body of water between the mouth of the James river and Chesapeake bay is Hampton Roads, one of the finest harbors in the world. Find it.
30. What United States fortress is in Elizabeth City county? Find it.
31. What two capes at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay?
32. What health resort on the coast of Princess Anne county?
33. Name and locate the capital of the State.
34. Name two seaport cities, and tell where they are.
35. What town is situated at the head of York river?
36. Mt. Vernon, the residence and burial-place of Washington, is in Fairfax county, on the Potomac river. Locate Fairfax county.
37. George Washington and James Monroe (two Presidents of the United States) and Robert E. Lee were born in Westmoreland county. Locate Westmoreland.
38. Red Hill, in Charlotte county, was the last home and burial-place of Patrick Henry. Find Charlotte county. Try to find out something about Patrick Henry.
39. Montpelier, once the home of James Madison (President of the United States), is near Orange Court House, in Orange county. Locate Orange county.
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