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UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY.

IN FOUR PARTS:

Historical, Mathematical, Physical, and Political.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS MILNER, M.A., F.R.G.S.

REVISED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY

KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.G.S.

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,

56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND 164, PICCADILLY.

MANCHESTER: CORPORATION STREET. BRIGHTON: WESTERN ROAD,

1876.

201.

"Let me once understand the real geography of a country,- its organic structure, if I may so call it; the form of its skeleton,-that is, of its hills; the magnitude and course of its veins and arteries, that is, of its streams and rivers; let me conceive of it as a whole, made up of connected parts; and then the position of man's dwellings, viewed in reference to these parts, become at once easily remembered, and lively and intelligible besides."

DR. ARNOLD.

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