Epigraph
to Geography III, by Elizabeth
Bishop, 1976
From
“First Lessons in Geography,”
Monteith’s
Geographical Series,
A.S.
Barnes & Co., 1884
LESSON
VI
What is Geography?
A
description of the Earth’s surface.
What is the Earth?
The
planet or body on which we live.
What is the shape of the Earth?
Round,
like a ball.
Of what is the Earth’s surface
composed?
Land and
water.
LESSON X
What is a map?
A
picture of the whole, or a part, of the Earth’s surface.
What are the directions on a Map?
Toward
the top, North; toward the bottom, South; to the right, East; to the left,
West.
In what direction from the center
of the picture is the Island?
North.
In what direction is the
Volcano? The Cape? The Bay?
The Lake? The Strait? The Mountains? The Isthmus?
What is in the East? In the West?
In the South? In the North? In the Northwest? In the Southeast? In the Northeast? In the Southwest?
Reads like a geographical catechism.
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