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Page iii - Corrected throughout. 4s. In composing the present work, the author's object has been, not to dissect the several countries of the world, and then label their dead limbs, but to depict each country, as made by God and modified by man, so that the relations between the country and its inhabitants — in other words, the present geographical life of the country — may appear.