A SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY, ON A NEW AND EASY PLAN, FROM THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES; INCLUDING ALSO THE ELEMENTS OF ASTRONOMY, AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, A VARIETY OF PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE TERRESTRIAL AND AND A PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY, CONTAINING ALL THE NAMES OF PLACES WHICH OCCUR IN THE TEXT.. For the Use of Schools and Private Students. BY THOMAS EWING, Teacher of Elocution, Grammar, and Composition, Geography, History, and Astronomy, Author of Principles of Elocution, Rhetorical Exercises, The English Learner, THE FIFTEENTH EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED AND ENLARGED. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON. 1839. [Price, bound and lettered, 4s. 6d. ; or with Nine Maps, 6s. 6d.] IN preparing the present edition for the press, every exertion has been used to render the work more worthy of the reputation which it has acquired with teachers and the public. The utmost pains have been taken to ensure accuracy in the various alterations rendered necessary by territorial changes and the advancement of geographical science. The additions to the statistical and historical details, with the population of the different countries, have been derived from the most recent and authentic sources. EDINBURGH, January 1839. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTEENTH EDITION. In revising this System of Geography for a new edition, every care has been taken to introduce such improvements as might sustain its established reputation. The history of the various countries is brought down to the present time; due attention having been paid to all the political changes, which, however, have not rendered necessary a different arrangement, except in the disjunction of Belgium from Holland, and of Greece from Turkey. The discoveries of the Landers in Africa, and the progress of geographical knowledge in other quarters of the world, have supplied the means of enriching the descriptive sections with a great variety of new, useful, and accurate information. In consequence of a careful examination of the department of natural history, a few alterations have been made, to keep pace with the advanced state of the science; and in every instance where change was deemed advisable, the most authentic as well as recent sources have been consulted. The Pronouncing Vocabulary has been farther enlarged; and now comprehends all the names of the divisions of countries, and of the towns, mentioned in that part of the Geography which is intended to form the first course. In the Maps, all the late discoveries have been inserted, so as to correspond with and illustrate the text. On the whole it is hoped teachers will find, that while the general plan of the work has not been any where departed from, nothing has been neglected for its improvement which was either necessary or desirable. EDINBURGH, February 12, 1833. |