SECOND THOUSAND. 



THE EARTH AND MAN: 



LECTURES ON COMPARATIVE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, IN ITS RELATION TO THE 



HISTORY OP MANKIND. 



BY ARNOLD GUYOT. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PROF. C. C. FELTON. 

 With Illustrations. 12mo. Price $1.25. 



" Those who have been accustomed to regard Geography as a merely descriptive 

 branch of learning, drier than the remainder biscuit after a voyage, will be delighted 

 to find this hitherto unattractive pursuit converted into a science, the principles of 

 which are definite and the results conclusive ; a science that embraces the investigation 

 of natural laws, and interprets their mode of operation ; which professes to discover in 

 the rudest forms and apparently confused arrangement of the materials composing the 

 planet's crust, a new manifestation of the wisdom which has filled the earth with its 

 riches. * * * To the reader we shall owe no apology, if we have said enough to 

 excite his curiosity and to persuade him to look to the book itself for further instruc- 

 tion." North American Rcrii tr. 



" The grand idea of the work is happily expressed by the author, where he calls it 

 the geographical march of history. * * * The man of science will hail it as a beautiful 

 sjeneratization from the facts of observation. The Christian, who trusts in a merciful 

 Providence, will draw courage from it, and hope yet more earnestly for the redemption 

 of the most degraded portions of mankind. Faith, science, learning, poetry, taste, 

 in a word, genius, have liberally contributed to the production of the work under review. 

 Sometimes we feel as if we were studying a treatise on the exact sciences ; at others, 

 it strikes the ear like an epic poem. Now it reads like history, and now it sounds like 

 prophecy. It will find readers in whatever language it may be published ; and in the 

 elegant English dress which it has received from the accomplished pen of the trans- 

 lator, it will not fail to interest, instruct and inspire." Christian Examiner. 



" A copy of this volume reached us at too late an hour for an extended notice. The 

 work is one of high merit, exhibiting a wide range of knowledge, great research, and a 

 philosophical spirit of investigation. Its perusal will well repay the most learned in 

 such subjects, and give new views to all, of man's relation to the globe he inhabits." 

 Silliman's Journal, July, 1849. 



IN PREPARATION. 



PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY. 



BY 



L. AGASSIZ AND A. A. GOULD. 



PART II. SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY, 



in which the principles of classification are applied, and the principal groups of 



animals are briefly characterized. 



The Publishers are happy to announce this work as nearly ready for press ; and it 

 is hoped that the authors' engagements may permit them to complete it during the 

 Summer, for use in the Fall Terms of Academies and Colleges. 



IN PREPARATION. 



MURAL MAPS: 



A SERIES OF ELEGANT COLORED MAPS, 

 EXHIBITING THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF THE GLOBE. 



Projected on a large scale, and intended to be suspended in the Recitation Room. 



BY ARNOLD GUYOT. 



