Manual of modern geography, mathematical, physical, and politicalW. Blackwood & Sons, 1861 - 676 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 3 - The culmination of all attempts to depict the face of the world appears in the Royal Atlas, than which it is impossible to conceive anything more perfect, Guardian. This is, beyond question, the most splendid and luxurious, as well as the most useful and complete of all existing atlases.
الصفحة 14 - Atlas is a great improvement on what has usually gone by that name ; not only is it fuller, but in some cases it gives the same country more than once in different periods of time. Thus it approaches the special value of a historical atlas. . . . The General Atlas is wonderfully full and accurate for its scale. . . . Finally, the Astronomical Atlas, in which Mr Hind is responsible for the scientific accuracy of the maps, supplies an admitted educational want.
الصفحة 16 - We must admire the ability and persevering research with which he has succeeded in imparting to his Manual so much freshness and originality. In no respect is this character more apparent than in the plan of arrangement, by which the author commences his description of the physical geography of each tract by a sketch of its true basis or geological structure.
الصفحة 21 - Europe the rigors of winter, Moving now more slowly, but dispensing its genial influences more freely, it finally meets the British Islands. By these it is divided, one part going into the polar basin of Spitzbergen, the other entering the Bay of Biscay, but each with a warmth considerably above ocean temperature.
الصفحة 3 - We know no series of Maps which we can more warmly recommend. The accuracy, wherever we have attempted to put it to the test, is really astonishing.
الصفحة 3 - Of the many noble Atlases prepared by Mr. Johnston and Published by Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to be the most popular.
الصفحة 13 - Plates, Maps and Plans of all the important Countries and Localities referred to by Classical Authors, constructed from the best Materials, and embodying the Results of the most Recent Investigations.
الصفحة 101 - GENERAL VIEW OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Position and Boundaries. — The British Isles, or United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, form an extensive archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, at a small distance from the western shores of Central Europe, from which it is separated by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel It consists of two large islands — Great Britain and Ireland — and of about 5500 smaller islands and rocks. Of these, 500 are contiguous to Great Britain,...
الصفحة 14 - They are as superior to all School Atlases within our knowledge, as were the larger works of the same Author in advance of those that preceded them.
الصفحة 16 - It contains a prodigious array of geographical facts, and will be found useful for reference. English Journal of Education.— Of all the Manuals on Geography that have come under our notice, we place the one whose title is given above in the first rank. For...