Hugh Robert Mill
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 202
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Excerpt from Elementary Commercial Geography The study of Commercial Geography has been so recently introduced into British schools that some uncertainty exists as to its scope and limits. This little volume attempts to define and illustrate the subject in a manner simple enough to be readily worked through in schools, and sufficiently accurate to serve for reference. Most space has been given, as seems proper in a British textbook, to the United Kingdom, India and the Colonies, and next to the countries with which there is most British trade, the United States, France, and Germany; but an effort has been made to treat each country or colony from the stand-point of a native. It is assumed that the scholar is familiar with the topographical geography of the British Islands; and that he makes constant reference to a good atlas. Maps should be used continually, and sketch-maps drawn by the scholars themselves on every occasion. The statistics given were compiled to be studied, and each table should be treated in the manner shown in $10; the figures should on no account be committed to memory. In the description of each country the names of towns with over 100,000 inhabitants are given in capitals, those of smaller towns in small capitals, and the population in thousands is added. Numbers are printed in antique figures, e.g. 1,500,000; but when expressed as thousands in modern type, e.g. 1500 thousand, and as millions in heavy type, e.g. 1.5 millions. The word British is used for "of the United Kingdom," Great Britain however means the one island of that name. England is employed in its strict geographical sense, excluding Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. In compiling the book official publications were consulted when possible; the data for the chapters on the United States, France, and Germany, were mainly obtained from American, French and German geographies and atlases. The reader is referred to the Encyclopædia Britannica or Chambers' Encyclopædia, new editions, for full information regarding commodities; to the Statesman's Year-book, published annually, and especially to the daily papers, in order to follow the constant changes in the tariffs and commercial relations of the world. The author cordially thanks Dr W. Robertson Smith, Editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and Mr Fred. C. Gardiner of Messrs James Gardiner and Co., Glasgow, for many valuable suggestions and corrections on the proofs. 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.