Elements of geography, for the use of young children, by the author of 'Stories from the history of England'.

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Página iv - ... faculty of the learner has acquired some degree of power : — but the second branch, which relates to the names and situations of places, is a mere matter of memory, which a child not only may be, but is best, taught by rote, and without any reference to his reason. Now, all the books of Geography (which I have met with) begin with the more abstruse and difficult, and postpone the more easy and technical parts of the study. This order I have reversed. I endeavour to impress upon the mind, in...
Página 57 - It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and South America, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Página 43 - Straits of Malacca, between Malacca and Suma'tra ; Straits of Sunda, between Sumatra and Java ; Straits of...

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