OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN OUTLINE OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, AN OUTLINE OF CONSTRUCTION OF MAPS. For the Use of Schools. BY ALEXANDER REID, A. M., Rector of the Circus-Place School, Edinburgh; Author of " Rudiments of FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON. PREFACE. THE following compilation has been prepared as an introduction to the Study of Geography, for the use of the Younger Classes in the Institution with which the Author is connected; but it is hoped that it may also serve to supply the place of larger and more expensive works in schools where only a limited portion of time can be devoted to this branch of education. The larger Text-books to which chiefly it is meant to be introductory, are Ewing's System of Geography, Stewart's Compendium of Modern Geography, and the Outlines of Geography for the Use of the Edinburgh Academy. In imitation of the last of these, the names of places in the text have been accompanied with short descriptions, and occasionally with the mention of some remarkable event, by which the labour of the Pupil in preparing his lesson is much diminished, and greater interest is excited during the examination upon it in the class, than could be effected by the repetition of a mere list of names. Following the method adopted in the works of Ewing and Stewart, there have been ap pended to the several countries notices of the physical geography, productions, government, and religion. These notices are necessarily very brief; but the Author has endeavoured to make them embrace as much as possible of that kind of information which is interesting to the minds of the Young, and to which a skilful teacher will readily add by oral instruction. To guide to the correct pronunciation of names of places, they have been accented according to the best authorities which the Compiler has had an opportunity of consulting. In the Appendix will be found an Outline of Ancient or rather of Comparative Geography, designed to assist younger IN THE PRESS. LEMENTS of UNIVERSAL HISTORY, EL on a New and Systematic Plan; containing a Narrative of the Principal Events from the Creation to the Present Date, with Chronological and Alphabetical Indexes. For the Use of Schools and of Private Students. By H. WHITE, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. One thick volume 12mo. This work is divided into three parts, corresponding with Ancient, Middle, and Modern History, and again subdivided into centuries, so that the various events are presented in the order of time; while it is so arranged that the annals of each country may be read consecutively. To guide the researches of the Student, the work contains numerous synoptical tables, with sketches of literature, antiquities, and manners at the great chronological epochs. A DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, in Two Parts; Part I. containing the Pronunciation, Etymology, and Explanation of all Words sanctioned by the best Authors; Part II. containing the Roots and Affinities of English Words alphabetically arranged, with Examples of their Derivatives. To which is added, An Appendix, containing a List of Obsolete and Unusual Words, with their Signification; and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. For the Use of Schools. By ALEXANDER REID, A.M., Head-Master of the Circus-Place School, Edinburgh; Author of "Rudiments of English Grammar," "Rudiments of English Composition," &c. One volume 12mo. Κ' EY to REID's RUDIMENTS of ENGLISH KEY to FERGUSON'S GRAMMATICAL Publish EXERCISES. 18mo. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, 11 Booksellers. R54 |