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NATURAL FEATURES OF INTEREST IN NORTH AMERICA.
It is the constant, persevering attempts—simply the continual doing—that accomplishes the work of the world. Devote ten minutes a day, if you cannot spare more time, to your preparation for sketching in to-morrow’s classes. By expressing your mental picture again and again you clear it up, and the increased interest of your pupils in the work will be ample reward. The experience gained will probably show that your last attempt is a much more complete expression than the first one; the repeated efforts made having resulted in a more thorough knowledge of the subject and therefore, a more complete representation.
As before stated in connection with the study of North America, natural features of interest should be sketched while with the class, at the same time locating them on the map.
The mental images for such sketches, as well as for all others, if not gained by actual observations, must be acquired through the study of pictures and descriptions, as has been remarked before, and should not be copied line for line from another’s sketch.
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