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Excerpt from Compendium of Ancient Geography, Vol. 1: Illustrated With Maps, Carefully Reduced From Those of the Paris Atlas, in Imperial Folio; With a Map of Roman Britain, From the Learned John Horseley, M.A. F. R. S. And With Prolegomena and Notes by the Translator, Calculated for Private Libraries, as We The study of a book of this nature requires in dispensabl y the concomitant contemplation' of maps: but what would be the number of morsels dispersed through such a work, were they to be made correspondent with the number Of partieus lar regions w hich so vast a space as that described therein comprehends? It is not a book Ofimere amusement, to be taken up wherever it is found. Serious as it is however, it may be easily aecom panied with arollof charts, or a portfolio that con; tains them. One cannot be too sensible of the'ad vantage of rendering familiar to the eye the 'situa tion, the extent, and the general connection of the respective contiguous parts, rather than having them disjointed, and represented under various scales, which in such case would be inevitable; so that to acquire a competent idea of their re union and conformity, a laborious application would become necessary: and witha'l there would not result from them the same effect that a fre quent and reiterated inspection of the same plate produces on the understanding. 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.