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I. UXITED KINGDOM, DENMARK, &C. 



THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, 



OR FIRST NOTIONS OF GEOGRAPHY. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE SUBFACT OF THE EARTH : 1. Origin of the name.-2. Preliminary 

 knowledge. -3. The distribution of land and water. -4. The undu- 

 lations of the terrestrial surface. 5. GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS 6 

 slauds.-7. Continents.-S. Peninsulas. 9. Isthmuses. 10. Pro- 

 inontones.-ll Capes and headlands. -12. The relief of the land. - 



18. llains and lowlands. 14. Plateaux and table-Ian Is. 15. Hills 

 lb. Mountains. 17. Systems or chains of mountains. 18. Oceans' 



19. Seaa.-.20 Gulfs.-21. Bays.-22. Straits._23. Channels. -2 4 

 Roads and roadsteads. -25. Banks and sand-banks. -2 6. Beefs. 

 27. Soundings -28. Lakes.-29. Rivers.-30. The bed of a river.- 

 W. Ihe banks of a river. 32. Tributaries. 33. Tallies 34 

 Watersheds.-35. Delto.-36. Estuaries. -3 7. Frith . THE GREAT 



fo ST Th R \frr ENT: 38 ' ItS 6Xtent andlimits.-39. Its divLns! 

 40 The Mediterranean.-41. Relief. 42. Its northern belt -43 

 The southern belt.-44. Prevailing mountain chains. -45. Outlines 



Lles^ Ft ^n'-r 47 - N y and Sweden.-48. BrS 

 isles. 49. France. 50. Spam and Portugal. 51. Italy 5<> 



S^^TSrt^ Archipelago.-55. Dardanelles and ^ 

 P horus.-56. The Black Sea. -57. Sea of Azof. -58. The Caspian. 

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