Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Epitome of Universal Geography, or a Description of the Various Countries of the Globe: With a View of Their Political Condition at the Present Time; With Sixty Maps
This last branch of Geography is that which is most important to persons engaged in the common pursuits of life, and therefore forms the principal part of an elemen tary treatise, for the use of general readers.
The Earth is a vast solid body, of a shape nearly round like an immense ball, and is composed of land and water. Although it appears to be permanently at rest, it is in fact in constant motion. It is so large that its surface, except where it is made irregular by hills and mountains, appears to be ?at.
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