Excerpt from The Traveller, or an Entertaining Journey Round the Habitable Globe: Being a Novel and Easy Method of Studying Geograhy To enter upon a laboured argument, to prove the inaptitude of young persons to study, and their dislike of whatever bears the appearance of a task, would be unnecessary: it is continually observed and lamented by every parent and tutor. But the Author has endeavoured, he hopes successfully, to overcome the one by the stimulus of novelty, and to evade the other by clothing the Preceptor in the garb of a fellow-traveller, and giving to instruction theguiseofwsualremarkainthccourseofa pleasant excursion. Should his juvenile compmons return from their journey, edified by what they may see and hear, his labour will be fully compensated; and the toil of a Town or the world'wili be lost in the pleasing reflection, that it has produced benefit'to his young friends of the present genera tion, who are destined to be the parents of the next, towhichalsotheadvantagesof his plan will natu rally descend. 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.