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VI. 
INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. 
By J. S. Keltie, ll.d., Secretary, B.Gf.S , 
The kind of information desired under this heading may be summed up 
in the three following questions, so far as uncivilised or semi-civilised 
countries are concerned 
(1.) What are the available resources of the country that may be 
turned to industrial or commercial account ? 
(2.) What commercial products can find an available market in the 
country ? 
(8.) What are the facilities for or hindrances to intercourse between 
the country and the rest of the world ? 
Or, briefly, (1) Eesources; (2) Wants; (3) Accessibility, 
These include the questions of suitability for immigration and coloni¬ 
sation. 
What is known as commercial geography is one of several special 
applications of geographical knowledge. From this practical point of 
view, therefore, the observations collected under other heads in this 
book will be of service, especially if the requirements of commerce are 
kept in view at the same time as the desiderata of science. From this 
standpoint, the sections on Meteorology, Geology, Natural History, and 
Anthropology should be consulted. Even general geographical and 
topographical observations will be of practical service—the general lie 
of the country, its altitudes, and its character at certain altitudes, its 
mountains, hills, valleys, plains, rivers—-if regarded from the special 
standpoint of habitability and possibilities of development. 
The suggestions contained in this, as in the other sections ot this 
ipanualj are meant both fpp the orcfinary explorer qr traveller who may 
