3 
Be 
Art. I. Modern Geography : 
~ Colonies, with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles, 
mes 
In our former volume (p. 437) we 
‘gave a detailed account of the very va- 
able original work, of which the vo- 
me before us is an abridgement: a 
ort notice wili therefore suffice on the 
| present occasion. 
| The plan followed seems to be not 
much that of general compression, of 
which the original would not perhaps 
admit, as of lopping off or considerably 
shortening particular portions, which, 
to common readers, and the young stu- 
dent of geography, are the least inte- 
resting and important. 
| Thus we find the introduction, which 
| still consists of above sixty closely print- 
ed pages, is restricted to those topics 
hich are immediately connected with 
eographical science. The antiquarian 
nd historical criticism is reduced to 
uf 
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CHAPTER IV. 
GEG@G-R’A PHY. 
a Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and 
in all Parts of the World; including the most 
"recent Discoveries and political Alterations, digested on a new Plan. By Joun Pinxer- 
"ton. Carefully abridged from the larger work. 8vo. pp. 70S. 
were loaded with Linnzan nomenclature, 
and of a length extremely dispropor- 
tionate to the other matter, have been 
judiciously contracted and amended 
The provincial divisions of the Eu- 
ropean states, which are for the most 
part omitted in the quarto edition, are 
carefully inserted in the present; and 
the population of the counties and 
towns of Great Britain has been inserted 
on the authority of the late enumera- 
tion, There are other more minute ad- 
ditions and improvements, all tending to 
qualify the book for the particular use 
of schoo!s and young people. The only 
objection that we have to make concerns 
the maps. These are too few, and 
much too general to be of great use: as 
far as they go, however, being abridged 
from those of the original work, they 
are much more correct than any of 
equal size that we have yet met with. 
