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Excerpt from Longmans' School Geography A treatment of foreign countries is thus obtained sufficiently extended for an adequate description, and which gives such a knowledge of them as should be had by pupils completing a school course in geography, 1la, broad enough to afford basis for intelligent comparison with their own country. As to the manner of treatment adopted for the American sections, it may be said that it is the outcome of a belief that a topical description, and one viewing the country as a whole, is more satisfactory than a recital of a similar series of data for each of its numerous subdivisions. Enough of the separate data, it is thought, are included in the tables on pp. 1...