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Excerpt from Physical Geography, or the Terraqueous Globe and Its Phenomena
Sir J. Herschel describes it in the following words We find ourselves thus introduced to the domain of Physical Geography, or the description of the actual state of the earth's surface in its three great divisions - land, sea, and air, as prepared for the habitation of organic beings, and as exhibiting the play of all those complex agencies on which depend the distribution of temperature and moisture, aerial and oceanic currents, and those conditions which, under the general title of climate, determine the abundance and limits of vegetable and animal forms. Thus as to the objects and scope of Physical Geography we are fully instructed by the eminent men who brought it into vogue. 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.
