Some Maps are inserted in this volume; and the careful student will probably find them the most useful parts of it. By continually referring to them, and by frequently copying them, he will get the main features of the geography of our Empire mapped upon his brain; and he will then acquire historical, statistical, and political knowledge respecting each part of that Empire with ease, perspicacity, and retentiveness. Otherwise he may experience the truth of the remarks of the old Greek historian Polybius, in the thirty-seventh section of his third book, that 'when the student has no geographical knowledge of the places mentioned, a talk about places is to him as if his would-be informant spoke in an unknown tongue, or uttered mere gibberish.'