NOTES. 



Page 1. i. Tauschhandel-Verbindungen ankntipfen, to enter into 



commercial relations. Tauschhandel = barter, exchange; Verbindung-= 

 connection, combination. 



2. bin, an adverb intensifying the force of the preposition gegen. 



Page 2. i. tier-. The hyphen indicates that the second component 

 part of the following compound word (viz., geographische) is to be 

 supplied with tier-: geographical differences in animals and plants. 



2. Verbreitungsgebiete, extent of territory. 



3. kulturwissenschaftlich = relating to the science of civilization; 

 trans., but these also have a significance indicative only of the progress of 

 civilization, but not a scientific significance. 



Page 3. i. m. For all abbreviations and signs, see page 162. 



2. befuhr. Notice the force of the prefix be here. It frequently 

 changes an intransitive verb into a transitive; the intransitive fahren signi- 

 fies : to move, travel, go (in a carriage or boat), etc.; l>efahren r \.o travel 

 over, journey on, navigate, etc. If fahren were used here, it would be 

 necessary to employ a preposition to mediate the relation of the verb to the 

 object. Cf. Schreiben uber, to write about; beschreiben, to write about, 

 describe ; sprechen iiber, to speak about ; besprechen, to speak about, dis- 

 cuss ; wohnen in, to live in; bewohnen, to live in, inhabit. 



3. Telegraphenplateau. The equivalent telegraph-plateau is not used 

 in English. The reference is to the great sub-oceanic plain. 



Page 4. i. Plankton. Use the same word in English. For a defi- 

 nition of the word, see pages 61 and 66. 



2. zusammenhangenden. A participle used as an attributive modi- 

 fier of Fragen. When such a participle is itself modified by tvords or 

 phrases (here, damif) it should generally be translated after the noun 

 modified, and before its own modifier, thus : the economic questions con- 

 nected with it. 



3. zum Vorwurf . . . gemacht, made the subject. 



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