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25 Refraction is a breaking of the rays of light, as when a ray strikes the surface of water. Reflection a bending back, as when it strikes in bright and opaque object

26 Oxygen and Hydrogen

27 About 252

28. The stomach with the gastric juice, and the intestines, the principal organs of secretion are the liver, the pancreas and the kidneys.

(29). The office of the veins is to convey the blood to the heart, of the arteries to to convey it from the heart.

30. The lungs are the breathing apparatus, through which the blood passes to be aerated.

31. Cleanliness, pure air, exercise, attention to diet, &c.

32. Cyrus was king of the Medes and Persians Alexander the great king of Macedon. Xenophon a Greek author, Xerxes King of Persia. Pythagoras an eminent Greek philosopher, Plato a Latin philosopher, Cicero a [[famous?]] Roman orator, Hannibal, a famous Carthiginian General, and Oliver Cromwell protector of England after the execution of Charles 1st.

33. Paganism, in Britain Druidism, The Crusades were originated by Peter the Hermit a fanatic who instigated the people of the middle ages to undertake the freeing of the Holy Land from the Dominion of the Saracens.

35. Marathon was fought between the Greeks and persians, Hastings, 1066, between the Normans under William the Conqueror and the Saxons. Waterloo in 1815 between the French under Bonaparte and the Allies, in Belgium

36. Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Sebastian Cabot, Magellan, Americus Vespuccius, &c.

37. The Revolutionary war was caused by the despotism of the English government in imposing taxes on the Colonies without their assent. The war of 1812 in defense of the maritime interests of the United States, some difficulties in regard to Texas, the late rebellion by the determination of the south to maintain its pet institution of slavery, to carry out which they seceded from the union

38. At Lexington or Concord N.H. at Long Island N.Y.

39. Philadelphia. — Washington presided at the Continental Cong. — No.

40. Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, the earl of Essex.

Transcription Notes:
(Sorry to do this to you, but please review one more time. I've fixed lots of names. -- Beth) Number 32 needs to be finished. It was incorrectly numbered as 33 and has now been edited. Edited: There are other [[?]] that need filling in as well.