Q.Where do most of those animals live?
A.In the river Nile.

Q.Where is this river?
A.In Egypt.
The spelling lessons contain words capable of explanation, such as white, black, round, square; others are classed as fleet, ship, brig, sloop, &c.; and others are in contrast, as hot, cold, dark, light, wet, dry, &c.
In this department we use the tablet placed beneath the arithmeticon, the invention and improvement of which are described in the volume entitled "Early Discipline Illustrated, or the Infant System Successful and Progressing." A clear idea of the whole apparatus is given by the wood-cut on the next page, and it ought certainly to be found in every infant school.

The sense of sight is then brought into full action to aid the mind, and that with results which would not easily be conceived.

We shall take another opportunity of explaining the use of the upper part of the apparatus, the lower demanding our present attention.
[Illustration] To use the _tablet_, let the followings things be observed.

It is supposed the children know well there are twenty-six letters in the alphabet; that twenty are called consonants, and that six are vowels.
We take first one perpendicular row of letters in the figure.