OF

GENERAL HISTORY,

ANCIENT AND MODERN;

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF ANCIENT AND MODERN GEOGRAPHY,
AND A TABLE OF CHRONOLOGY.

BY

ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER,

LORD WOODHOUSELEE.

WITH

CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS TO THE AUTHOR'S TEXT, NUMEROUS NOTES,

AND A CONTINUATION TO THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

EDITED BY THE

REV. BRANDON TURNER, M.A.

SIXTH EDITION.

BLACKIE AND SON:

GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, AND LONDON.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE admitted excellence of Tytler's Elements of General History has led the editor to endeavour to render it still more useful as a work of reference and as a text-book for students of history, "by giving more amplitude" to the text where he considered it too brief, and by adding fifteen new Sections where the chasm seemed too great, including an outline of Jewish history to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 71 A. c., and other subjects hitherto wholly omitted. The additions are inserted within brackets, and the new Sections are distinguished by an asterisk (*) In this way the original work has been enlarged more than one-third, exclusive of the Continuation, which carries down the contemporary history from the Revolution in England in 1688 to the present time, and forms 131 additional pages.

The insertion of new Sections has necessarily changed their original numerical order; and, as history is now generally divided into three periods, this plan has been followed in the present edition, by dividing Modern history into the Middle ages and Modern history proper; the Middle ages forming part second, and Modern history parts third and fourth, the latter part being the Continuation.

In the composition of the Continuation, the example of the Author of the Elements has been followed-speculative refinement has been discarded, and attention directed to the more useful knowledge of historical facts.

Of the Second edition it is only necessary to state that some observations on the chronology of the early ages have been added (xvi—xviii), and that the first, seventh, and eighth Sections have been rewritten and extended.

April, 1847.