Element Geography

Author : J. Olney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330434260
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book An Element Geography written by J. Olney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Element Geography: Adapted to Olney's Outline Maps for Common Schools and General Use Among the various branches of education, calculated to interest the young, and excite a thirst for knowledge, no one holds a more conspicuous place than Geography. The reason of this is obvious. It treats of visible and familiar objects, and directs the attention of the learner to a subject with which he has been led naturally and inevitably to form some acquaintance. For before he is capable of understanding much, if any thing, of many other branches of education, he has gained most of the elementary ideas of this, and can express them in clear and definite language. Near the very spot of his birth, many, and perhaps all the varieties of land and water daily meet his inquiring eyes. The plain stretches before him, the hill swells upward, the brooks, streams and rivers flow onward, and in the distant horizon, perchance, the mountains mingle with the clouds, and the mighty ocean with its gulfs, bays, coves and harbors, may not be far removed. And daily for his food, perhaps he uses the products of every various land and clime. Thus do geographical facts early become familiar to his mind. The interest he feels in this study, and the success that has crowned his labors in this department of learning, stimulate him to engage in others more difficult and abstruse, and to pursue them with zeal and assiduity; and thus the youth is led on to become a scholar and learned man. In preparing the following work and the accompanying Outline Maps, I have aimed to simplify this branch of study so as to adapt it to the humblest and most youthful capacity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.