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"No other Geographer living understands the relations of the Physical features of our earth so well, or knows how to present them to Students with such simplicity, as Prof. Guyot.”—AGASSIZ. No. I. PRIMARY; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ONE QUARTO VOLUME, WITH OVER 100 ELEGANT ILLUSTRATIONS. No. II. COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. IN ONE ROYAL QUARTO VOLUME, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, CONTAINING Twenty-one Maps, three of which are double-page maps, engraved in the highest style of the art; colored Physically and Politically; embracing also diagrams for the construction of the maps of each continent according to Prof. Guyot's system of Constructive Map Drawing. In the preparation of this series the great variety of extraneous matter with which geographies are generally crowded has been entirely rejected. 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