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23. Name the chief mountain ranges in England and Scotland, stating
the direction, and characteristic features in the formation, of
each.
24. State the principal directions in which British Colonial enterprise
has moved, and give the date of the establishment of our chief
colonies.
25. Draw a map of British India, showing the different Presidencies
and their chief towns.
26. Trace the routes to India, by the Cape of Good Hope and the Red
Sea respectively, and state the most important points passed on
each route.
ENGLISH.
Lower Grade.
Friday, 22nd June. 10 a.m.
Passage for Dictation.
The statesmen of whom we speak passed •‘Leir youth surrounded by
the incessant din of theological controversy. Opinions were still in a
state of chaotic anarchy, intermingling, separating, advancing, receding.
Sometimes the stubborn bigotry of the Conservatives seemed likely to
prevail. Then the impetuous onset of the Reformers for a moment
carried all before it. Then again the resisting mass made a desperate
stand, arrested the movement, and forced it slowly back. The vacil¬
lation which at that time appeared in English legislation, and which it
has been the fashion to attribute to the caprice and to the power of one
or two individuals, was truly a national vacillation.
ENGLISH,
Higher Grade and First Paper for Honours Grade.
Friday, 22nd June. 10 a.m. to 12.
Ten questions only to be attempted, of which at least two must be in
Section II. and two in Section III.
Section I,
1. Write an Essay, of not more than three pages, on one of the follow¬
ing subjects:—
(1.) Party Government,
(2.) The importance of Colonial enterprise in the life of a
nation.
(3.) The qualities that produce a good orator.
(4.) The influence of the invention of Printing.
2. Analyse the following, explaining the principles upon which you
base your analysis :—
“ High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand