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Oil the Ist of April, 1920, was pubHsihecl, handsomely printed in Quarto, on. 

 fine wove Paper, embellished with Two Coloured Maps, and Three beau- 

 tiful Engravings, 



PART I.— OF A 

 NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM 



OF 



MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND 



COMMERCIAL; 



BEtNG 



A PERSPICUOUS DELINEAflON 



OF THB 



PRESENT STATE OF THE GliOBE, 



WITH ITS 



INHABITANTS AND PRODUCTIONS ; 



Preceded by the History of the Science % interspersed with Statistical and Sy- 

 nopticfil Tables^ and accnmpanied with a Series of Correct Maps, a great 

 Variety itf appropriate Views, and numerous other Engravings^ illnstrat' 

 ingthe Manners^ Customs, and Costumes of Nations. 



BY THOMAS MYERS, A.M. 



OF THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH. 



There has never, perhaps, been a i»eriod in the modem History of Europe, 

 when it could be less necessary than at the present moment, to enforce rea- 

 sons for puulishing a neio System of Geography. The political events of the 

 last six years have, in fact, so entirely changed the territorial relations of the 

 diflFerent Continental States, that all existing Geographical Works are, in a 

 menstxrut obsolete. There is scarcely a single Country in Europe which, with- 

 in the above period, has not experienced either an increase or a diminution 

 of its possessions. We do not mean simply a contiguous increase or diminu- 

 tion ; but such accessions or losses as have materially altered their relative 

 charactei-s. 



The various Acts and Treaties by which these mutations have been effect- 

 ed, are not only difficult of access, but, cumbrous memorials for common use. 

 The man of science, the st^itesman, the merchant, the student, and the tra- 

 veller, would each gladly avail himself of a more convenient exposition of the 

 actual state of Europe. But wher»- will he find such a one ? We know not. 

 Ther- are, indeed, detached works, relating to detached Countries; but, 

 from their very mull iplicity, they lend rather to perplex than facilitate in- 

 quiry. It is the object of the present undertaiiing to supply this defif-iency in 

 our literature; and, if we peif^rm it in a m inner tqual to our conception of 

 whav it should be, we may rely securely upon its succt ss. 



Wh pi ice, in the very from of our motives f . r producing this New System 

 of Geoj;raphy, these peculiar circumstances; and we do so, because they 

 supersede all those customary persuasives, by which the patronage of the 

 Public is usually solicited towards such enterprises. Every ma-t who takes 

 the slightest imere.-t in public affairs; every one who feels a natural anxiety 

 to know M'hal Europe is, at the present momeni. after the terrible convulsions 

 it has undergone, and who wishes to understand the political connexion of the 

 diffesent Stales; is conscious that his means of doing so are extremely im- 

 perfect. Our task will be, to remove that imperfection ; and, by an accurate 

 development of the final arrangements made at the Congress of Vienna^ 



