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Section V. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



By W. J. HAMILTON, Esq., Pres. Tx.G.B, 



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Before alluding particularly to the individual objects 

 to which, in reference to Geographical observations, the 

 attention of travellers should be more immediately di- 



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(1, it may be, perhaps, expedient 



general points which should be constantly borne in mind 

 as the basis of all observations, inasmuch as without 

 them, all individual remarks, however carefully made, 

 must be desultory and unsatisfactory. 



Most 



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necessity of acqmring a habit of writing down in a note- 



book, either immediately or at the earliest opportunity, 

 the observations made and information obtained. Where 

 numbers are concerned, the whole value of the informa- 

 tion is lost, unless the greatest accuracy is observed ; 

 and amidst the hurry of business or professional duties 

 the memory is not always to be trusted. This habit 



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cannot be carried too far. A thousand circunibtances 

 occur daily to a traveller in distant regions, which from 

 repeated observation may appear insignificant to himself, 

 but which may be of the greatest importance to others, 

 when brought home in the pages of his note-book, either as 

 affording new information to the scientific inquirer, or as 



