If preferred, these maps might be painted of a less size, to cover a table.

No difficulty would be found to get a set of such table-covers or floor-cloths painted, if the public would once encourage the plan.
There are now large skeleton maps published, which have merely the principal cities, towns, and rivers, &c., marked down, so as not to present too many objects to confuse the young eye.

There are also picture maps in which the chief productions of a country, both vegetable and animal, are delineated in their proper places.

These would form a great aid in nursery instruction, and also for an infant school.

Let the great truth be ever borne in mind, that what is seen by the eye is more quickly understood and more certainly remembered, than what is merely described or made known in words.
I would also have an oblong tray made to hold water, large enough to cover a table.