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Excerpt from Etymological Geography: Being a Classified List of Terms Epithets of Most Frequent Occurrence, Entering, as Postfixes or Prefixes, Into the Composition of Geographical Names, Intended for the Use of Teachers, and Advanced Students of Geography, and as a Reference-Book in Geogr This Manual is intended to supply what the Author has long considered a desideratum in all compilations of Geography; it does not in the least supersede, but is supplementary to, them. All Geographical Names, however obscure, ambiguous, and in many cases unattainable, the knowledge of their component parts may now be, conveyed originally a meaning, arising from some peculiarity of appearance, situation, or other circumstance. Much has, of late years, been done towards facilitating to the youthful mind the knowledge of the etymologies of words, by which a spirit of enquiry into their original import has been very successfully engendered. This process, from which undoubted advantages have resulted to other branches of knowledge, has been but partially applied to Geography, though this seems to be the department, upon which the light of Etymology can be brought to shed its strongest rays. Throughout the work, the Author has not failed to give to Geographical Names in the British Islands that decided prominence, which their relative importance to the Youth of these Countries seems to claim. In investigating those Names, many Continental ones, identically the same in meaning, but differing slightly in orthography and pronunciation, were brought under his notice. 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.