309. What is the position of Cawnpore, and what has it been considered under the English government? 310. What city stands at the confluence of the Jumna and Ganges? 311. What are the position, extent, and population of Benares? 312. For what is it remarkable ? 313. What is the position of Patna, and what is its character ? 314. What hills separate Bahar from Bengal ? 315. What is the general character of the province ? 316. What are its chief products ? 317. What is the character of the people ? 318. Name some of its chief towns, 319. What is the position, and what are the latitude and longtitude of Calcutta? 320. What is its computed population, and of what does that chiefly consist? 321. What is its distance from the sea, and what are the facilities of communication ? 322. What are the seasons into which the year may be divided in Calcutta, and what their respective temperature and salubrity? 323. What is the general denomination of the west coast of the Bay of Bengal ? 324. What are the latitude and longtitude of Madras, its population and climate ? 325. What province terminates the coast on the south? 226. What island lies off the southern extremity ? 227. What subsidized native State occupies the northern portion of the Dekhin, north-west of the Madras provinces ? 328. What is the position of Mysore ? 329. What general appellation is given to the east coast of the peninsula ? 330. What are the latitude and longtitude, population, and climate of Bombay? 331. In what direction lies the principality of Guzerat, and what is its capital? 332. What are the three principal Raijput states, their relative situations and capitals ? 333. What province partly under petty dependent Rajas, but principally under British authority, lies between Malwa and the province of Allahabad ? 334. What independent principality is conterminous with the Punjab on the north-west ? 335. What are the principal countries immediately north of the Himalaya from west to east, and to whom subject? 336. What country lies on the east of British India? 337. What countries are conterminous with the British possessions on the south-east, and what are the chief British possessions in that quarter ? 338. Describe or delineate the general outline of the configuration of India? 339. What are the extreme degrees of latitude and longtitude between which it lies. 340. What are its estimated area and population ? 341. What proportion do they bear to those of Europe? 342. What are the boundaries ? 343. What are the direction and extent of the Himalaya mountains ? 344. What is known of the easternmost portion of the range? 345. What are the principal passes, and what their elevation? 346. What is the common elevation of the peaks, and which are the most lofty? 347. What are the situation, course, and height of the Vindhya range? 348. What are the position and elevation of Mount Aboo? 349. What is meant by the eastern and western Ghats? 350. What are the position and height of the Nilgiris? V. 5th Civil Service Report-No questions. VI. 6th Civil Service Report, pp. 292-310. 351. On the accompanying map of England and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the west coast, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Thames, Ribble, Tees, Tamar; and mark the position of Leeds, Hereford, Chepstow, Guildford, Boston, Salisbury, Stockton, Tiverton, Aylesbury, Bury St. Edmond's. 352. Sketch a map as large as your paper will permit, either of France, or of Italy; insert on it the names of the chief bays and headlands; trace the course of four great rivers; and mark the position of six important towns. 353. Describe the position of the following places; state to whom they belong, and for what they are celebrated: Berlin, the Hague, Goa, Suez, Belfast, Milan, Saragossa, Smyrna, Centa, Utah ? 354. Explain fully the meaning of the following geographical terms: latitude, longtitude, isthmus, promontory, basin, delta, sound. 355. Where are the Straits of Magellan, the Dardanelles, Davis' Straits; Ben Nevis, the Pyrenees, the Caucasus ; the rivers Amazon, Chenab, St. Lawrence; the lakes Huron, Lucerne, Loch Fyne; the islands 356. Write a geographical description either of Scotland, or of Ireland, with reference especially to its physical features? 357. Name six of the greatest rivers in Europe, stating through what countries they flow, and naming the chief towns on their banks. 358. Describe the position of the following places, state to whom they belong, and for what they are celebrated:-Damascus, Lisbon, Madras, New York, Moscow. 359. Sketch a map of Ireland, as large as your paper will permit, insert on it the names of the chief bays and headlands; trace the course of four great rivers; and mark the position of twelve important towns. 360. Describe the position of the following places, and state for what any of them are celebrated :-Kidderminster, Sedgemoor, Scone, Kenilworth, Stirling, Norwich, Belfast, Tuam, Deal, Conway, Montrose, Falmouth. : 361. Mention towns of the United Kingdom which are celebrated for the manufacture of the following articles respectively wool, iron, leather, glass paper, hats. Give the county in which each town you mention is situated. 362. On the accompanying map of England and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the east coast, and the chief towns of each; trace the course of the Medway, Severn, Ouse, Mersey; and mark the position of London, Swansea, Reading, Ilfracombe, Ely, Shrewsbury, Hartlepool, Torquay, Bangor, Lynn Regis. 363. Sketch a map as large as your paper will permit either of Spain or of Italy; insert on it the names of the chief bays and headlands; trace the course of four great rivers; and mark the position of six important towns. 364. Describe the position of the following places; state to whom they belong, and mention any circumstances of interest attaching to them: Vienna, Singapore, Canton, Melbourne, Venice, Blenheim, Elba, - Copenhagen, Algiers, Stirling Londonderry, Sarawak. 365. Explain fully the meaning of the following geographical terms: longitude, latitude, strait peninsula, watershed. 366. Where are the straits of Babelmandel, the channel of Mozambique, Helvellyn, the Cevennes; the rivers St. Lawrence, Don; the lakes Geneva, Ontario; the islands Minorca, Juan Fernandez ? 367. Name four of the greatest rivers in Europe, stating through what countries they flow, and what are the chief towns on their banks. 368. On the accompanying map of England and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Pembroke to Dover, and the chief towns of each; trace the course of the Thames, Tyne, Ribble, Ouse; and place Portsmouth, Leeds. Stockport, Cambridge, Huddersfield, Brighton, Bideford, Tunbridge, Ipswich, Matlock. 369. Write a general description of the coast line of Ireland from Waterford to Galway, mentioning any striking feature which it presents, and the most remarkable places upon it. 370. Mention any towns in the United Kingdom which are celebrated for the manufacture of the following articles: wool, leather, silk, gloves, paper, hats. 371. Where are the following places, and for what are any of them remarkable? St. Alban's, Conway, Bannockburn, Killala, Staffa, Carisbrook Castle, Drogheda, Culloden, Aldershott. 372. Where are the rivers Clyde, Bann, Dee, Forth, Foyle? The lakes Coniston, Corrib, Awe, Maree, Derg? The mountains Helvellyn, Ben Cruachan, Ingleborough, Plinlimmon, Nephin? Describe the 373. What islands are adjacent to the coast of Scotland ? position of such as you remember as accurately as you can. 374. Describe the principal features of one county in Ireland, and of one in Scotland. 375. On the accompanying map of Engfand and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Scarborough to Portsmouth, and the chief towns of each. (remainder the same as in question 368.) 376. On the accompanying map of Ireland insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Belfast to Cork, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Shannon, Suir, Foyle, Bann; and mark the position of Tipperary, Strabane, Kilkenny, Tuam, Kiladare, Castlebar, Killarney, Clonmel, Cavan, Enniskillen. 377. Describe the position of the following places; state to whom they belong, and mention any circumstances of interest attaching to them: Vienna, Singapore, Canton, Melbourne, Venice, Blenheim, Elba, Copenhagen, Algiers, Stirling, Lyons, Cadiz. 378. Selecting any one of the great lines of railway in Ireland, give a brief description of the counties through which it passes, and the chief towns near it. 379. On the accompanying map of England and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands of the counties along the coast from Whitehaven to Portsmouth, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Thames, Trent, Eden, Tees, Wye; and mark the position of Stafford, Birmingham, Reading, Carlisle, Nottingham, Brighton, Gloucester, Boston, Canterbury, Banbury. 380. On the accompanying map of Ireland insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Dublin to Limerick, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Boyne, Liffey, Foyle, Bann; and mark the position of Kildare, Castlebar, Killarney, Clonmel, Cavan, Athlone, Sligo, Belfast, Dundalk, Coleraine. 381. Describe the position of the following places; state to whom they belong, and mention any circumstances of interest attaching to them :-Canton, Melbourne, Venice, Elba, Copenhagen, Naples, Mexico, Madras. 382. Explain fully the meaning of the following geographical terms: latitude, longitude, gulf, basin, delta. 383. Where are the Straits of Gibraltar, the Straits of Magellan, Mount Sinai, Mount Atlas; the rivers Hudson, Ganges; the islands, Minorca, Juan Fernandez, Cape Boa, Point de Galle? 384. Write a general description of any one of the four provinces of Ireland. 385. Describe the position of the following places, state to whom they belong, and mention any circumstances of interest attaching to them :-Berlin, Moscow, Lisbon, Milan, Gaëta, Toledo, Bombay, Nankin, Rio Janeiro, Damascus. 386. On the accompanying map of England and Wales insert the names of the chief bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Liverpool to Dover, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Medway, Severn, Trent, Mersey; and mark the position of Manchester, Bristol, Oxford, Bideford, Cambridge, Boston, Scarborough, Shrewsbury, Durham, Whitehaven. 387. On the accompanying map of Ireland insert the names of the chicf bays and headlands; of the counties along the coast from Cork to Sligo, and the chief town of each; trace the course of the Shannon, Boyne, Liffey, Lagan; and mark the position of Londonderry, D |