Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sketch of Historical Geography
We shall perhaps gain the best idea of the gradual expansion of knowledge if we go back nearly to the earliest times of which we have any definite historical accounts, and from that as a starting-point, picture to ourselves the world as known to the more civilised nations, at intervals up to the present time.
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