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Excerpt from A Pictorial Hand-Book of Modern Geography: On a Popular Plan, Compiled From the Best Authorities, English and Foreign, and Completed to the Present Time; With Numerous Tables and a General Index In the present edition the typographical errors which had escaped in the first have been corrected, all ascertained changes in population, especially those shewn in the recent Censuses of England and America, have been introduced, and several new wood engravings have been substituted for old ones. A few notes also have been added, to explain the present unsettled state of Italy and America which is all that can be done respecting these countries till they have arrived at some definite condition. The Publisher feels gratified by the favourable reception which his Volume has hitherto met with, both from the public and the reviewers, and trusts by attention to future editions to render it worthy of continued patronage. 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.