EDITOR OF THE "NEW GENERAL ATLAS," "CLASSICAL HISTORICAL ATLAS," A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND COMPLETED TO THE PRESENT TIME. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. M.DCCC.XLV. ADVERTISEMENT. As the utility of works of the kind here offered to the public is abundantly obvious, and generally felt and acknowledged, it may be sufficient here to premise in a few words what are its peculiar claims to public favour. In consequence of the vast additions which of late years have been made to the general stock of Geographical knowledge, as well as of our more intimate relations with other countries in all regions of the globe, the addition of innumerable references to the repertories formerly in common use has become indispensable; and, for the same reason, a much more careful selection and condensation of the requisite materials has been rendered necessary, in order to bring a compilation of this popular description within the reach of those for whom it is mainly intended. In attempting to accomplish these different objects, the Editor of the following Work may fairly claim to himself the merit of having laboriously and faithfully availed himself of all the accessible means of accurate information; and he ventures to hope that within a very moderate compass, and in a form as commodious as has appeared to be practicable, he has been able to accumulate a larger store of minute and exact information than will be found in any recent publication of similar extent. In pursuing this humble track of investigation, he does not pretend to emulate the peculiar merits of the statistical work for which the world is indebted to the most distinguished political economist of the present age, and for the accomplishment of which he has possessed pre-eminent advantages: he rests his claim to public patronage and support on less lofty but not less solid grounds; and, in comparison with any other previous publication of similar extent, he is confident that the quantity as well as the quality of his materials will be found to justify the most sanguine hopes of success. |