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GERMAN.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Decline together throughout

Ein wilder Bär, die kleine Uhr, weisses Salz.

2. Decline throughout the present indicative of the following verbs:

wollen, sollen, müssen, dürfen, mögen.

3. Give comparative and superlative degrees of the following:

stark, edel, süss, klar, stolz, gut, hoch, viel, gern, nahe.

4. Translate into German, for numerals using words, not figures

In the year 1885, February, the 2nd month, has only 28 days.

5. Translate into German

If you please, can you tell me what o'clock

it is?

I do not know whether my brother knows your cousin.

We hope that you will continue your conversation.

Order the horses to be harnessed, for we must start as soon as possible.

For the last year he has taken a holiday every

two months.

6. Translate into English

DER JUNGE MANN ALSO ERZÄHLTE. "Ihr wisst dass ich aus Thüringen stamme, einem bergigen Land im Herzen von Deutschland. Unsere Burg liegt in einem freundlichen Thale, das ein klarer Fluss in vielen Windungen durcheilt. Waldige Berge, nicht so gewaltig hoch, wie die Riesen im Schweizerland, und doch auch nicht winzig, begrenzen die schmale Sohle des Thales. Ihr Fuss ist mit Aeckern und Wiesen bekleidet, in grösserer Höhe erheben sich Tannenwälder, die zu allen Zeiten des Jahres wie der Jägersmann grüne Gewänder tragen. Im Winter freilich deckt sie der Schnee mit schimmerndem Weiss."-G. Ebers.

7. Translate into English-

"Barbara und Adrian kehrten heim, und nun gab es bei der Abendmahlzeit viel zu erzählen. Peter hatte manches Seltsame auf der Reise erlebt und neue Hoffnung gewonnen, der Knabe war auf der Schule ausgezeichnet worden und Lieschen's Krankheit konnte schon eine Gefahr genannt werden, welche ein glückliches Ende genommen. Barbara strahlte vor Frende, denn zwischen Maria und ihrem Bruder schien wieder alles im Gleichen zu sein.

"Die schöne Sommernacht im April ging freundlich vorüber."

8. Translate into German

"What are you doing there?" a young swallow asked the busy ants. "We are collecting provisions for the winter," was the immediate answer. "You are very wise," said the swallow,

"I will do the same thing."

And forthwith

the bird began to carry a quantity of dead flies and spiders into its nest. "But what are these things for?" said the mother swallow. "These are provisions to keep us through the long dark winter, dear mother, help me to collect them yourself also; the ants have taught me this good lesson." "Leave the ants to themselves," replied the old bird, "Nature has given us swallows a happier lot; when the rich summer is over we shall depart from here. We shall never have a winter."

9. Parse the words printed in italics in questions 6 and 7.

ARITHMETIC.

The Board of Examiners.

Every result must be reduced to its simplest form. The whole of the working of a question must be sent in as part of the answer.

1. Write down in words the result obtained by multiplying ten million seven hundred and thirty-four thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven by seven million six hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and ninety-four.

2. Express as a vulgar fraction ·734 + ·796.

3. Extract the square root of 32·421636.

4. Extract the cube root of 1906624.

5. What is the value of 120 acres 2 roods and 25 perches of land at £34 4s. 6d. per acre?

6. How much per cent. is 133 francs of 150 francs? 7. Messengers walking 4 miles an hour are despatched from the same starting point in the same direction at intervals of one hour. At what intervals of time will they be overtaken by a horseman following them at a rate of 9 miles an hour?

8. Find to the nearest penny the present value of £400, due two years hence, at 4 per cent. per annum, compound interest.

9. The area of a circle is found approximately by multiplying the square of its radius by 3.1416. Find in acres the area of a circular racecourse whose radius is 530 yards.

10. State and explain each step in the process of the addition of vulgar fractions.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Board of Examiners.

(The map must be attempted.)

1. Describe the Mistral, Bora, Gregale, Etesians, and other chief Mediterranean winds; especially

the Sirocco, with its origin, effects, and probable connection with the retreat of the South Alpine glaciers.

2. What are the "Horse Latitudes"; how are they bounded by winds and position, and what relations have been indicated between the movements of the air and of the ocean from the observed characters of this region and other calms and variables?

3. Describe the physical conditions necessary for the formation of glaciers, the different stages of their development, the causes of their movements, and their general characteristics, as well as evidences of their former existence in valleys now too warm to contain them.

4. Where is the present north magnetic pole? What is the magnetic equator? Trace the line of no variation through both poles.

5. If the Gulf Stream ceases at about 45° N., how has the extension of the warm water much farther north been accounted for?

6. Draw a rough outline map of North America, crossing it by numbered lines of latitude and longitude at intervals of ten degrees, and mark on it the names and boundaries of the chief political divisions, and the chief Bays and Gulfs.

7. Mark on the above map one of the chief Rivers flowing into the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Arctic Ocean respectively, numbering the mouth of each to correspond with separate descriptive list, and giving a chief town on each.

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