The opening of Preface
TO THE NEW EDITION.
SINCE the publication of the first edition of this work, the Author has been able to correct many inaccuracies that had crept into it, and to collect much new matter from works since published, which is embodied in the present edition, and has considerably added to its size. The recently-published Second Volume of Baron Humboldt’s invaluable “Cosmos,”[1] with Colonel Sabine’s learned notes, and sundry papers that have appeared in the scientific periodicals of Europe, America, and India, bearing on questions of Physical Geography, have yielded profitable information.
It was the Author’s wish, and her Publisher’s intention, that the present edition should be accompanied by a series of Maps to illustrate the more important questions of Physical Geography treated of in it; but Mr. A. Keith Johnston having announced the publication of a new edition of his “Physical Atlas” in a reduced size, at a low price,[2] the first two Nos. of which have already appeared, the project was relinquished, in the belief that Mr. A. K. Johnston’s smaller Atlas will furnish suitable illustrations to this work.