System of Universal Geography, Founded on the Works of Malte-Brun and Balbi: Embracing the History of Geographical Discovery, the Principles of . the Most Recent Sources, of All the Count

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The sources from which the Work has been compiled are generally indicated in their proper places throughout the volume. The writers have stated nothing but on what they conceived to be good authority, though in many cases they have found the authorities so perplexingly at variance as to make it extremely difficult to determine which ought to be followed.

They have not allowed themselves to indulge in those moral, economical, and political speculations, with which some Geographers largely intersperse their works, conceiving that the space necessary for these may be much better em ployed in the statement of facts, from which the readers may draw inferences for themselves. They have confined themselves to such subjects as they considered within their legitimate province, and such as are calculated to be useful to the great bulk'of' the reading Public. With this view, particular attention has been directed to the Sections embracing the British Islands, and the principal British Colonial Possessions, which, in addition to the strictly Geographical details, will be found to contain a larger amount of statistical information connected 'with their natural productions, commerce, and manufactures, than has yet appeared in any work of the same size. To facilitate the conversion of Foreign Weights and Measures into the British standard, part of an able article on that subject, from the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, has been prefixed to the Work.

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