An Introduction To Geography

THE RALEIGH GEOGRAPHY READERS No. IV. An Introduction to Geography SIMPLE LESSONS ON GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS AND ELEMENTARY NOTIONS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY LONDON BLACKIE SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E. C, GLASGOW AND DUBLIN 1901 THE RALEIGH GEOGRAPHY READERS Geography and Common Things Object readings on the science of common things in the first three bookx and thereafter geography lessons Book I. Nature-Knowledge. PART I. lOd. Teachers Book II. Mature-Knowledge. PART II. Is. L Handbooks, Book III. Mature-Knowledge. TART III. 1. 2d. j is. W. each. Book IV. AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY, is. 6d. Book V. Geography of Great Britain and Ireland. Is. 6d. Book VI. Geography of Greater Britain. Is. 9d. Book VII. A Brief Introduction to Commercial Geography Com mercial Relations of Great Britain, the Colonies, and the United States. Its. 9d. BLACKIES CLASS-BOOKS OF GEOGRAPHY Brief but full Synopses of Geography, with Coloured Maps No. 1. Introductory Geography. id. 2. The British Isles. 3d. 3. England. 2d. 4. British Isles and Outlines of Greater Britain. 3d. 4. The British Isles and Continental Europe. 4d. 5. Europe. 3d. No. 0. Asia. 3d. 7. Africa. 3d. 8. America. 3d. 9. Australasia. 3d. 10. The British Empire. 3d 11. Commercial Geography of the British Empire and the United States. 4d. Class-books Numbers 1, 2. 10, 11, correspond respectively to Raleigh Geography Headers IV, V, VI, VII. BLACKIES CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY READERS A series of shilling volumes, each dealing with one of the Continents. Each book is provided with a full synopsis, illustrated with coloured maps. Africa. With Sketch Maps and 16 Coloured Maps. Is. Europe. With . Sketch Maps and 16 Coloured Maps. Is. Asia. With Sketch Maps and15 Coloured Maps. Is. America. With Sketch Maps and 16 Coloured Maps. .. Australasia. With Sketch Maps and 8 Coloured Maps. Is. CONTENTS Lesson Page 1. Sun and Shadow ... 5 2. Direction The Four Ctir clinai Points 7 3. When the Sun is in the South .... 12 4. The North Pole Star - - 14 5. A Wonderful Discovery The Magnetic Needle - - 17 6. The Gilded Needlea Fable 20 7. The Use of a Map - - 23 8. Rivers What they arc - 29 9. What Makes the Rivers - 31 10. How Rivers are Made Springs 33 11. Watershed ... 36 12. Tributaries and River Basins 38 13. An Old, Old Ocean and a Tiny River - - - 41 14. On the Thames - - - 44 15. On the Thames Ebb and Flow 48 10. On the Thames Estuary - 50 17. Mud-banks Sand-banks - 52 18. Sand-bars - - - - 55 19. Deltas I .... 59 20. Deltas II - 62 21. Uses of Rivers I - - 66 22. Uses of Rivers II - - 69 23. Some Famous Rivers - - 71 24. Mountains and Hills - - 74 25. Some Mountains in Great Britain - - - - 76 26. Great Mountains - - - 79 27. Valleys .... 84 28. Glaciers .... 87 29. Caves 89 30. Climbing the Alps - - 92 Lesson . Page 31. Uses of Mountains - - 95 32. VolcanoesI - 98 33. Volcanoes II - - - 103 34. Earthquakes - - - 108 35. Geysers - - - - 110 36. Lakes I .... 113 37. Lakes II - - - - 118 38. Waterfalls - ... 120 39. Plains and Plateaux - - 123 40. Great Plains - - - W 41. The Sahara - - - - 130 42. Map of England Towns Village, Hamlet - - 133 43. Inland Towns-A University Town and, a Manufacturing Town - - - - 137 44. London A City, a Seaport, a Worlds Market - - 140 45. Seaports, or Coast Towns, and Harbours - - - 142 46. The Work of the Waves - 147 47. Islands - - - - 149 48. Coral Islands - - - 151 49. Peninsulas - - - - 154 50. Isthmuses - - - -160 51. Capes 162 52. Bays - - - - 166 53. Gulfs 169 54. Channels, Estuaries, Mouths, Firths, Loch, c. - - 171 55. Straits 174 56. Continents and Oceans - 177 57. The Continents Europe - 181 58. The Continents Asia - - 184 59. The Continents Africa - 188 IV CONTENTS Lesson Page 60, The Continents Australia - 192 61, The Continents North America - - - - 196 62. The Continents South America .... 200 63. The Oceans - The Atlantic 203 Lesson iage 64. The Oceans The Pac c and Indian Oceans - - - 206 65. The Oceans The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans - - - 209 66...