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laboured in succession, This work, though still incomplete (of the 

 three parts the author intended to devote to Asia Minor, only two, 

 parts xviii. and xix. have been published), is considered the most valu- 

 able work on Geography in existence. Among the other writings of 

 Hitter, the following deserve especially to be mentioned : ' Europa 

 eingeographisch-statistischesGemalde' (1807); Vorhalle Europais- 

 cher Volkergebilde vor Herodot ' (1820); 'die Stupas' (1838); 

 'die Colonisirung von New-Seeland J (1842); 'Blick auf das 

 Nilquell-land J (1844) ; ' der Jordan, und die Beschiffung des Todten 

 Meeres' (1850); 'Blick auf Palestina' (1852); 'das Kameel' 

 (1852). Many memoirs by Hitter have appeared in the 'Trans- 

 actions ' of the Berlin Academy, and in the ' Journal of Universal 

 Geography.' Some of these have been collected and published under 

 the title of ' Einleitung zu einer mehr wissenschaftlichen Behandlung 

 der Erdkunde.' 



These labours entitle M. Hitter to be considered as the creator of 

 scientific geography. Instead of limiting geography to collecting 

 isolated facts, and descriptions without logical order, he tried to 

 discover the natural and intimate relations which exist between a 

 country and its inhabitants : employing all the ideas which history 

 and the natural sciences supply, he has drawn conclusions, which have 

 erected the geography of the present time into a kind of physiology 

 of the earth. 



