revised and corrected throughout, and brought down to the period of its
publication by such modifications of the original text as the nature of
the changes to be made seemed to require. Thus new and more recent
statements of the commercial, financial, political, and other relations
of countries have been often substituted for those given in the English
edition of the work, and the results of late discoveries have been
interwoven with the original matter, or have served to rectify some
antiquated error, the gradual removing of which from our manuals forms
at present an important part of the task of the geographical compiler.
The portion of the work relating to the United States has been written
anew, and fills two hundred pages; that of the English edition
comprising only thirty-three pages and being extremely meagre. A new and
larger map of this country has also been given, and woodcuts have been
added to the chapter devoted to its description.
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● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.
● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.