Samuel Augustus Mitchell

An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography: Designed for the Instruction of Children (Classic Reprint) Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography: Designed for the Instruction of Children The following work is designed as a first book of Geography, to be used in the instruction of children in Families and Schools, as soon as they can spell and read with facility. The Author has endeavoured to render it simple in arrangement, and easy of comprehension. He has also aimed at making the descriptive matter characteristic and concise; to embody it in short sentences and paragraphs, and in plain English, without being trifling or childish. The Primary Geography forms the commencement of a Series of School Books, which, in connexion with Mitchell's School Geography and Atlas, Geographical Reader, and High School Geography and Atlas, will elucidate the Geography of our own, and the other countries of the earth. The work is divided into eighty-three Lessons, seventy-six of which are devoted to the illustration of Geography, and seven relate to Astronomy. A few of the first Lessons are arranged partly in the method of Question and Answer; and in these, where the Pupils are required to find the answers, the latter are numbered, to agree with each series of questions respectively. In the first three-fourths of the book, the words of the answers are printed in Italic type; in the remainder, there is no such distinction, and the pupils are required to ascertain the requisite answers by their own discernment. It will thus be perceived that the plan of the Primary Geography is to lead the learner forward by easy and gradual steps, so as to prepare the youthful mind for an introduction into a more advanced study of this important science. 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.