Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, Vol. 3: Or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions In Africarom the centre of that island devoted of yore, under the symbol of the cross, to the safety of every Christian dag - the British empire enforces from the Barbary States that respect which they pay to no other power. From the foot of the Pillars of Hercules, it carries dread into the heart of the remotest provinces of Morocco. On the shores of the Atlantic it has built the forts of the Gold Coast and of the Lion's Mountain.l It is from thence that it strikes the prey which the Black furnish to the European races of men; and it is there that it attaches to the soil the freed-men whom it snatches from the trade in slaves. On the same continent, beyond the tropics, and at the point nearest to the Austral pole, it has possessed itself of a shelter under the very Cape of Storms. Where the Spaniards and the Portuguese thought only of secur ing a port for their ships to touch at, - where the Dutch perceived no capabilities beyond those of n plantation, - it is now establishing the colony of a second British people; and, uniting English activity with Batavian patience, at this moment it is extending around the Cape the boundaries of a settlement which will increase in the south of Africa to the size of those states which it has founded in the north of America. From this new focus of action and of conquest, it casts its eyes towards India; it discovers, it seizes, the stations of most importance to its commercial pro gress, and thus renders itself the exclusive ruler over the passes of Africa, from the east of another hemisphere. Finally - As much dreaded in the Persian Gulf, and the Erythrean sea, as in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Archipelago, - the British empire, the possessor of the finest countries of the East, beholds its factors reign over eighty millions of subjects. The conquests of its merchants in Asia begin where those of Alexander ceased, and where the Terminus of the Romans could never reach. At this moment, - from the banks of the In dns to the frontiers of China, - from the mouths of the Ganges to the mountains of Thibet, -all acknowledge the sway of a mercantile company, shut up in a narrow street in the city of London 1. 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.

Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 3 Inamefica it gives boundaries to Rnssiatcwu-ds thepole, and tothe United States towards the temperate regions. Under the torrid zone it reigns in the midst of the Antilles, encircles the Gulf of Mexico, till, at last, it meets these new States, which it was the first to free from their de pendence on their mother-country, to make them more surely dependent upon its own commercial industry - and, at the same time, to scare, in either hemisphere, any mortal who might endeavour to snatch the heavenly fire of its genius, or the secret of its conquests, it holds, midway between Africa and America, and on the road which connects Europe with Asia. 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.

Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 2 Population.] Upwards of one-third of the surface of Switzerland, co sisting of Alps and Glaciers, is wholly uninhabitable. Given Schoch, Creme, and Hassel's estimates of the alation of bahitah Switzerland in 1816. Stein in his Geography publ' ed in 1826, estimat the population at and Balbi in his recent Balance Palitiqr at Jacob states the census taken in 1821, to have bee 1,783,23l; and in 1827, Of this number about two-third speak German; the majority of the remaining third speak French abou Italian; and Romanah - a corrupted dialect of the Latin which has been supposed to come very near to the colloquial dielec alleged to have been in use among the Romans. Most of the le speal these different languages very ill, especially the Germans, Wm dialect in many of the cantons is almost unintelligible to a native of Germany. Manners and Ciatoms.) The Swiss are in general a robust and hand some race, their labour being such as invigorates without exhausting the human frame. The costumes of Switzerland are simple, and calculated rather for convenience than ostentation, but are not on that account the less graceful. The higher ranks imitate the fashions prevalent in France. The Swiss have preserved many of the original features of their national character, particularly in those cantons which have least intercourse with foreigners. They are brave and honest in a high degree; and notwith standing their habits of emigration, their attachment to their countryis proverbial, and few leave home without the hope in prospect of at least returning to end their days in the home of their childhood. The Swiss, while engaged in foreign service, will often have his whole national sym pathies so powerfully awakened by a Swiss air, as to forget a soldier's onour in his longings to revisit his fatherland; and nothing cheers the industrious Swiss pedlar, during his long wanderings through all the towns of Europe, so much as the prospect of returning home and becoming the proprietor of a little smiling cottage on the Engadine, or some other to mantic district of his native land. The Swiss dine generally at mid-day. 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.

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