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Title: The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846 Wallace, William, 1768-1843 Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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Lonjitude 5 VVeit 5 Longitude East lo from Greeawich 15 Fig. 85. MAP OF EUROPE—EAST part. 287
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25 Longitude East 30 from Greenwich 35 288 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. Pakt UI. PART III. GEOGRAPHY CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. In the second part of this work, tlie principles of geography have been treated of asfounded upon a general survey of the globe. The most extensive portion of our task stillremains. We must delineate the leading objects of nature, art, and human life, as theyappear successively in each different region into wJiich the earth is divided. Five great general divisions of the earth are now usually recognized:—1. Europe. 2.Asia. 3. Africa. 4. America. 5. The extensive and numerous islands of the South Sea,to which the French give the name of Oceania, the English those of Australasia and Poly-nesia, to which we may add the islands of the Polar Sea. Each of these will form the sub-ject of a separate book. BOOK I.EUROPE. Europe is the smallest in extent of the four great continents, and yet we may pronounceit the most important of all the

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