The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its Relation to the History (Classic Reprint)

The lectures contained in the volume here offered to the public were delivered, by invitation, in French, between the 17th of January and the 24th of February, of the present year. One of the halls of the Lowell I nstitute, in Boston, was placed, for that purpose, at the authors disposal, by the liberality of the Trustee, John A. Lowell, Esq. They were spoken with the help only of a few notes, and were not intended, at the time, for the press. But the publication having been desired by some friends, and requested by the editors of the Boston Daily Traveller, for the columns of that excellent journal, the author determined to n-ite out, the next morning, the lecture of the evening before. These rapid pages, translated, from day to day, by Mr. C. C. Felton, Professor in Harvard University, are collected and reprinted in the present volume. Neither time nor circumstances have permitted any important alterations; the only material additions are found in the first lecture, the last part of which did not appear in the journal, and, at the beginning of tlie eighth, the portion which treats of the marine cun-ents. This subject, although announced in the programme of the course, it was found necessary, for want of time, to pass over in silence. As to the rest, tlie lectures have retained their original east, notwithstanding the incongi uity wliich sometimes happens, of bringing several different subjects mto the L same discourse.
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