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, Vol. 4: Or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions It isfromthis elentedtsbloalsnd, eomprisiog, sounding) Humboldt's sdmurement. 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, 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.

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Excerpt from A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Vol. 4 N.e. Extremity it is divided from the continent of America by Behring's straits. On the N. It is bounded by the Icy ocean, which here forms a series of obscure gulfs and promontories, extending throughout the vast space of 1 30 degrees of longitude, but of which little knowledge has yet been obtained. Its boundaryoon the E. Is the Pacific ocean, under names of the sea of Kamtschatka, the sea of Japan, the Yellow sea, the Chinese sea, 8m. On the S. It is bounded by the Indian ocean, under a variety of names derived from the difl'erent coasts which it laves, and which here forms the two great Indian peninsulas. The Arabian gulf, the isthmus of Suez, the Mediterranean, the Grecian archipelago, the Dardanelles, the sea of Marmora, the straits of constantidople, the Black sea, and a part of the imaginary line already noticed, my be considered as forming the west a'n boundaries of 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.