pictures, stretches away in the distance The foreground of the picture on as far as the eye can see. It is a plain. the next page consists of rolling land, but you can see the low hills in the distance. Do you know of any such land in your neighborhood? If so, tell what you can about it. Find the stream, the road, the bean-poles, and the corn, in the picture. What does the "cut" in the road-bed tell us of the former level? Where do you suppose the stones were found for building the stone wall? Tell other objects in the picture and what they are doing. These plains are called prairies, because they are covered with grass. Do you know of any low, flat land or plain near your home or school? If so, tell us what grows on it. Describe the two scenes of low, flat land. Some of the land of our earth is neither very high nor very low and flat. It may be hilly, or it may be irregular, roll ing land. The part between the high land and the low Some high land descends gradually to the low Some land descends very abruptly to the low Find gradual and abrupt slopes in the pictures on this and Find highlands, lowlands, and slopes in the world-pictures. All the land surface of our earth is made up of In many places on our earth one looks out on highlands, lowlands, and slopes, streams and bodies Find them in the pictures on the next page. In which does THE OCEAN. The great body of salt water which surrounds the continents and most of the islands of the world is the OCEAN or SEA. ocean seems largest? Smallest? Which seems most inclosed by land? Through what water would you pass from the Arctic to the Pacific? The ocean covers about three-fourths From the Arctic to the Atlantic? of the earth. The ocean The land bordering the ocean is the sea-coast or sea-shore. Trace the sea-coast of each continent. Which continents have the most regular coast? Have you ever seen the ocean? If so, tell all you can about it. If you have not, ask someone who has, and tell us what you learn. |