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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

BY MARY SOMERVILLE,

AUTHOR OF "THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES,"ETC. ETC.

SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, from the Second and Revised London Edition.

WITH AMERICAN NOTES, GLOSSARY, &C.

In one neat royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth, of over 500 pages.

The great success of this work, and its introduction into many of the higher schools and academies, have induced the publishers to prepare a new and much improved edition. In addition to the corrections and improvements of the author bestowed on the work in its passage through the press a second time in London, notes have been introduced to adapt it more fully to the physical geography of this country; and a comprehensive glossary has been added, rendering the volume more particularly suited to educational purposes. The amount of these additions may be understood from the fact, that not only has the size of the page been increased, but the volume itself enlarged by over one hundred and fifty pages. At the same time, the price has not been increased.

While reading this work, we could not help thinking how interesting, as well as useful, geography as a branch of education might be made in our schools. In many of them however, this is not accomplished. It is to be hoped that this defect will be remedied: and that in all our educational institutions Orography will soon be taught in the proper way. Mrs. Somerville's work may, in this respect, be pointed to as a model.- Tail's Edinburgh Magazine.

Our praise comes lagging in the rear, and is well-nigh superfluous. But we are anxious to recommend to our youth the enlarged method of Studying geography which her present work demonstrates to be as captivating as it is instructive. Nowhere, except in her own previous work, "The Connection of the Physical Sciences." is there to be found so large a store of well-selected information SO lucidly set forth. In surveying and grouping together whatever has been seen by the eyes of others, or detected by their laborious investigations, she is not surpassed by any one. We have no obscurities other than what the- imperfect state of science itself involves her in; no dissertations which are felt to interrupt or delay. She strings her beads distinct and close together. With quiet perspicacity she seizes at once whatever is most interesting and most captivating in her subject. Therefore it is we are for the book: and we hold such presents as Mrs. Somerville has bestowed upon the public, to be of incalculable value, disseminating more sound information than all the literary and scientific institutions will accomplish in a whole cycle of their existence. - Blackwood's Mag.