GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. BY WILLIAM LAWSON, TRAINING COLLEGE, DURHAM. PART I.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. PART II-THE BRITISH ISLANDS. PART III.-THE COLONIES. Second Edition, Revised. EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT. LONDON; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. ADVERTISEMENT. In bringing out a Second Edition of this Work, care has been taken to render the information as complete and accurate as possible. The whole has been scrupulously revised, and the statistics, in most instances, have been compared with Parliamentary Returns. PREFACE. THIS work, though consisting of three distinct parts, is essentially one. The portion devoted to the Outlines of Mathematical and Physical Geography contains those broad facts and general principles upon which all Geography is based; and in the Second and Third Parts of the book constant reference is made to the truths established in Part I. As a Text-book this manual will be found to differ in several respects from any hitherto published; and it may be as well, perhaps, to notice here some of these points of difference. 1. I have constantly endeavoured to bear in mind the different uses of a text-book and an atlas. It has been too much the practice hitherto to crowd Geographies with dry lists of names and columns of figures. Now, considerable experience in teaching has convinced me that these lists and figures are in a great measure useless, except for reference; and that a good atlas contains all that can be desired for this purpose. 2. Having, therefore, omitted a great amount of matter with which Geographies are usually encumbered, I have a 2 |