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elaborate descriptions. Let liim tlien acquire the habit 

 of never quitting his ship without his note-book and 



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irksome to have to remember and to fetch 



these materials, the traveller, if he acquires the habit of 

 constantly using them with readiness, will never have 



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himself before start- 



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arisen m proviuir 

 sful companions, 

 these few introductory remarks 



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proceed to describe as briefly and succinctly as possible 



some of the principal features to which the attention and 



the inquiries of the young geographer should be chiefly 



directed. For this purpose I propose dividing the subject 



into two heads, which, without straining the use of words, 



may be not inappropriately called Physical and Political 



Geography. By physical geography I mean everything 



relating to the form and configuration of the earth's 



surface as it issues from the hand of nature, or as it is 



modified by the combined effects of time and weather, 



and atmospheric influences. By political geography I 



would wish to imply all those facts which are the imme- 

 diate consequences of the operations of man, exercised 

 either on the raw materials of the earth, or on the means 

 of his intercourse with his fellow creatures.^ 





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* Au lUiliau writer of considerable eminence, Count Aimibale Eanuzzi, 

 in a little Avork publisbed at Bologna, 1840, entitled * Saggio di Geografia 

 Pura/ divides geography into t-^o brancLes, -wliicli he calls pure and 

 Stat ;eal , ography: the former professes to describe the results of 

 physical forces, the latter the eiiccts of moral force; the termer is ex- 

 pre^seu by measurement, the latter by numbers. 



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