The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Volume 3The Society, 1887 - Geography |
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Page 140 - We are qualified by ample trial of the books in our own classes to speak to their great efficiency and value. We have never known so much interest evinced, or so much progress made, in the study of geography, as since we have employed these as our school-books.
Page 140 - Beginners," consisting of twelve pages ot Maps (above seventy large and small). Is. 6d.; 2s. 6d. coloured. Book of Blank Maps. The above Maps complete in all but the names, to be filled in by the Learner. Is. Book of Map Projections. The Lines of Latitude and Longitude only to the above Maps.
Page 220 - Ara and Irik in the form of birds. Swooping down, these two spirits took from the waters two solid substances of the shape and size of a fowls egg. From one of these Ara by his creative power formed the heavens, and from the other Irik formed the earth. On comparing their respective creations it was found that the expanse of...
Page 268 - ... however, appears to bear in a peculiar manner on the case in point ; viz., the importance of geography in a political view. For the sea and the earth in which we dwell furnish theatres for action; limited, for limited actions; vast, for grander deeds , but that which contains them all, and is the scene of the greatest undertakings, constitutes what we term the habitable earth ; and they are the greatest generals who, subduing nations and kingdoms under one sceptre, and one political administration,...
Page 261 - Thus it was that he not only exerted himself to become familiar with as many historic tacts as possible, and transmit them to posterity, but also with the various regions of the inhabited land and sea, some intimately, others in a more general manner. For otherwise he would not have reached the utmost limits of the earth, traversing it in his imagination.
Page 140 - Eminently practical, well stored with examples of wider range and more varied character than are usually given in such books, and, its method of treatment being thoroughly inductive, it is pre-eminently the book for general use."— English Journal of Education.
Page 234 - European has yet made tea-planting pay, nor can he bo expected to compete with the Chinese middleman, who lives simply, works cheaply, and speaks the language in common use. Grass-cloth fibre and jute are exported in small quantities. The first is exported to China to be woven into summer grass-cloth. Manufactured grass-cloth and other textile fabrics are sent to Formosa to be dyed with the fresh Formosan indigo, famed throughout China for its bright and durable tints. The northern districts produce...
Page 268 - Even if we descend to the consideration of such trivial matters as hunting, the case is still the same ; for he will be most successful in the chase who is acquainted with the size and nature of the wood, and one familiar with the locality will be the most competent to superintend an encampment, an ambush, or a march.
Page 220 - ... limit of its canopy the skies. Under the force of this compressure vast upheavals took place over the earths surface and thus the mountains and hills were formed from which arose the rivers that water the valleys and plains. As soon as the earth was created plants and trees sprang spontaneously out of its surface. And now the two spirits seeing there was none to inhabit the earth set about the task of creating man. They first tried to form the human species from the trees hat had sprung up out...
Page 92 - The Growth and Vicissitudes of Commerce in all Ages. An Historical Narrative of the Industry and Intercourse of Civilised Nations.