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Excerpt from An Introduction to Physical Geography This book is intended to serve as a general class-book in Physical Geography in schools where geography is taught on modern lines. The requirements of candidates preparing for the Cambridge Senior Local Examination in Physical Geography have been specially kept in view, and the book covers also all that part of the syllabus of the Oxford Senior Local Examination which refers to Physical Geography in the strict sense, as well as the physical part of the syllabus in geography for the London Matriculation, and examinations of similar scope. Among the special features are the large number of diagrams and simple sketch-maps, intended not only to illustrate particular problems, but also to serve as a guide to teachers and scholars in the construction of other similar maps and diagrams. Further, as there is now general agreement that physical geography can only be regarded as coming legitimately under the scope of school geography when the phenomena described are considered in their relation to human life and activities, this aspect of the subject has been carefully kept in view, and references have been given to facilitate further work by teacher and scholar in this direction. Again, as it has always been an objection to the ordinary text-book of physical geography that it treats the subject from too abstract a standpoint, giving, for example, generalised accounts of plains, plateaux, etc., without adequate discussion of particular examples, and thus producing an impression of unreality, this danger has been avoided here by the description of concrete examples, intended to be used by the pupil as models for similar accounts of his own. 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.