(2) Cyclones are the evaporation of volcanoes.
(3) The dingo is a bird with a face like a dog.
(4) (Trees of Australia.) The cow-tree, octopus, and large palms are very plentiful.
(5) The Plateau of Tibet is noted for the Tibet goat. I cannot say whether the goat took its name from the Plateau or the plateau from the goat.
(Note: She would feel the same difficulty about the Skye terrier and the Cheshire cat. Did the cat take its name from the county, or the county from the cat?)
(6) Hong Kong before it came into possession of England consisted of a few shanties and huts: at the present time it consists of mountains, valleys, and rivers.
(7) Rangoon a Prussian seaport on the Baltic so called because it is situated on a Rangoon, salt water lake.
(Note: Take the island of Rügen, the port of Riga in Russia, a lagoon from the Adriatic, and Rangoon in Burmah, and mix.)
English Literature papers seldom came my way. They were very exhausting, for the candidates wrote essays of appalling dreariness, and there were few oases. I have a few samples.
Q. Name the authors of the following works: