Excerpt from A Compendium of Geography: Being a Concise Description of the Various Parts of the World; Adapted to the Capacities of Children and Youth Having looked at the plan of a Compendium of Geography, prepared by wm. A. 'i hayer, I am per snarled that such a w mlt would be highly serviceable in common schools, and would recommend its publication. 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.