and other productions chiefly found :-Ostrich, Kangaroo, Crocodile, Reindeer, Cinnamon, Camphor, Flax, Sulphur?

9. Describe as minutely as you can the position of the following places :-Coringa, Balasore, Golconda, Bhooj, Assaye, Peshawur, Galle, Baroche, Madura, Paniput, Arcot, Ellora.

10. Mention in a general way the boundaries of the Nizam's dominions. What is their population estimated at? Name the chief towns in them.

11. Draw a map of India, showing the chief rivers and mountain ranges; mark on it, also, the vernacular languages of the various districts.

12. Draw a map showing the coast line of England from Yarmouth to Land's End. Write in their proper places the names of the counties that touch the sea between these points. Indicate also the Naze, Beachy Head, Plymouth, Dover, Spithead, Truro, the Downs, Dungeness.

and reduce 4 hrs. 1 min. 10 sec. to the decimal of a week. 2. Add together 062435 of 1007. + 7·4375 of 10s. + 1.356 of 78. 6d. + 2.784 of 24d., and reduce the result to the fraction of 297. 10s. 74d.

3. Divide 0007 by 035 and by 3500, and extract the square root of each quotient to four decimal places.

4. A room is 37 ft. 2 in. long, 25 ft. 8 in. broad, and 22 ft. 6 in. high: find the cost of covering its four walls with paper 14 yds. wide, at 18. 13d. a yard.

5. In what time will 5637. 138. 44d. amount to 9017.

178. 44d., ai 3 per cent.?

6. Divide x + y3 + 3xy

1 by x + y

1, and ex

tract the square root of 21 3x3 + 1x2 + 2x + §. 7. Resolve all the following expressions into factors, and thence find the highest common measure of x* + 2x2

a2

2c

x + a

2

2)(x − 4) = (2x — 3) - 23.

= m

+

a

812

y

= n

10. A labourer is engaged for 30 days, on condition that he receives 2s. 6d. for each day he works, and loses 18. for each day he is idle; he receives 27. 78. in all. How many days does he work, and how many days is he idle?

Examiners.

GEOMETRY.

REV. K. S. MACDONALD, M. A.
REV. J. P. ASHTON, M. A.

1. Define a circle, a trapezium, a gnomon, and a sector. When is one rectilineal figure said to be inscribed in another rectilineal figure?

2. To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.

3. If the square described upon one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the squares described upon the other two sides of it, the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle.

4. Having given the base of a triangle, the difference of the sides, and the difference of the angles at the base, it is required to describe the triangle.

5. In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the squares on the sides containing ths obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side upon which, when produced, the perpendicular falls, and the straight line intercepted without the triangle between the perpendicular and the obtuse angle.

6. If two circles intersect one another, their common chord, when produced, bisects their common tangent.

7. No straight line can make so great an acute angle with the diameter of a circle at its extremity, or so small an angle with the line that is perpendicular to it, as not to cut the circle.

8.

To inscribe a circle in a given triangle.

First Examination in Arts, 1869.

ENGLISH POETRY.

Examiner.-MR. C. H. TAWNEY, M. A.

1. Point the following passage, sentence by sentence, and express the sense in plain prose :

From hence no cloud or to obstruct his sight

Star interposed however small he sees

Not unconformed to other shining globes

Earth and the garden of God with cedars crowned
Above all hills as when by night the glass

Of Galileo less assured observes

Imagined lands and regions in the moon
Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades
Delos or Samos first appearing kens

A cloudy spot.

2. Explain and illustrate by quotations from Milton or other poets the following expressions in italics: (a.) Now morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing sowed the earth with orient pearl.

(b.)

(c.)

Thou wouldst thyself, no doubt,

And boldly venture to whatever place

Furthest from pain, where thou mightest hope to change
Torment with ease, and soonest recompense

Dole with delight which in this place I sought.

Thy fiercest.

Well thou knowest I stood

(d.) Like Maia's son he stood.

(e.)

And the violence

Of Ramiel scorched and blasted overthrew.

(f) Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail,

Sky-tinctured grain.

(g.) Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms And uncouth pain fled bellowing.

3. What was the first form of Paradise Lost? Quote any passages in the 4th, 5th, and 6th books which you think particularly fine, giving your reasons. Point out any defects in these books.

4. Explain

(a.) And ye five other wandering fires that move
In mystic dance not without song, resound
His praise, who out of darkness called up light.
(b.) Behind them Rome's long battle

Came rolling on the foe,

Ensigns dancing wild above,
Blades all in line below.

So comes the Po in flood-time

Upon the Celtic plain ;

So comes the squall, blacker than night,

Upon the Adrian main.

(c.) Oh! still her step at moments falters
O'er withered fields and ruined altars,
And fain would wake, in souls too broken,
By pointing to each glorious token;
But vain her voice till better days
Dawn in those yet remembered rays,
Which shone upon the Persian flying,

And saw the Spartan smile in dying.

5. What reasons have we for supposing that the ancient Romans possessed a ballad-literature?

6. "Byron was himself the beginning, the middle, and the end of all his own poetry, the hero of every tale, the chief object in every landscape."

Justify or impugn this assertion.