An Easy Grammar of Geography; For the Use of Schools, Upon Goldsmith's Much Approved Plan (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: -. ADVERTISEMENT To the tecond Edition, The very general approbation with whiefc the first edition of Willett's Easy Grammar of Ceo. raphy ha been received, and the great and still increasing demand for the work, have rendered the publisher solicitous to make it still more perfect, and thus to increase its claims to publicjitronae. Considerable additions, as well/ us numerous corrections and improvements have accordingly been made in the (vetent edition?The publisher feels warranted in saying that it will now be found t be more correct, less incumbered with extraneous and useless matter, and on the waole better caleulated to facilitate the progr, as of the younger classes of -tudents in the acquisition of Geographical knowledge, than any work -hitherto offered is the public. chapter{Section 4PREFACE. The compiler of the following little book i aware rKat it may be thought presumptuous. ii one uiikeown to the world as an author, to add another 10 the many geographical works already before the public. His apology is, that amom all the smaller elementary works hitherto published for teaching the science of geograpiiy. he has found none which his experience has r taught him to consider as defective. He beps however, that it may be distinctly understood. that he has no pretensions to being considered the author of an original work. His object ha; been rather to make a useful than an origins! book He has not hesitated therefore, to avaii himself freely of the labours of those who have gone before him. In common with others engaged in the education of youth, he has long felt the want of a compendious treatise, which should embrace tho;.e facts necessary to be committed to men. ory hy young beginners; and which should b-r entirely uiiincumbcred with other matter.? Goldsm...