An easy introduction to the study of geography

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

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Persistent identifier:: PPN1736876759

URN:: urn:nbn:de:0220-gd-20616770

Title:: An easy introduction to the study of geography

Shelfmark:: USA G-23(1,1848)

Author:: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

Place of publication:: Philadelphia, [Pa.]

Publisher:: Thomas, Cowperthwait

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: USA

Publication year:: 1848

Edition title:: Revised edition, ... printed from an entire new set of stereotype plates [Electronic ed.]

Copyright:: Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut

Language:: English

Subtitle:: designed for the instruction of children in schools and families ; illustrated by one hundred and twenty engravings and fourteen maps

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PREFACE,: Tusz following work is designed as a first book of Geography, to be used in the instruction of children in Families and Schools, as soon as they can spell and read with facility. "The Author has endeavoured to render it simple in arrangement, and easy of comprehension. He has also aimed at making the descriptive matter characteristic and concise ; to embody it in short sentences and paragraphs, and in plain English, without being trifling ar childish. The Prımarvy GEooraruy forms the commencement of a Series of School Books, which, in connexion with Mitchel’s School Geography and Atlas, Geographical Reader, and High School Geography and Atlas, will elucidate the Geography of our own, and the other countries of the earth. The work is divided into eighty-three Lessons, seventy-six of which are devoted to the illustration of Geography, and seven relate to Astronomy. A few of the first Lessons are arranged partly in the method of Question and Answer; and in these, where the Pupils are required to find the answers, the latter arc numbered, to agree with each series of questions respectively. In the first three-fourths of the book, the words of the answers are printed in Italic- type; in the remainder, there is no such distinction, and the pupils are required to ascertain the requisite answers by their own discernment. It will thus be perceived that the plan of the Primary Geography is to lead the lcarner forward by easy and gradual steps, 80 as to prepare the youthful mind for an introduction into a more advanced study of this importani science. The engravings in the Primary Geogrorhy re ne” "7 il from origina. Jesigne, and have been introduced, more with teference 10 illustrating re- 43

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