BY E. WILLIAMS, ETON, AND AT THE ETON WAREHOUSE, 186, FLEET-STREET; J. & J. 1. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH 1839. ΤΟ THE REV. JOHN KEATE, D.D. CANON OF WINDSOR, AND HEAD MASTER OF ETON SCHOOL, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS LIBERAL AND CONTINUED ENCOURAGEMENT AFFORDED TO THE AUTHOR. THE following Treatise has considerably exceeded the limits, which had been originally assigned for so elementary a work; but the extent of the subject is so great, that the individual details will perhaps still be deemed too concise. In addition to some account of the various ethnical and political changes, which have so repeatedly taken place in the early ages of the world, as well as in later times, there have been a few other matters introduced, either intimately connected with the study of Geography, or having a general bearing upon it. These have been added, not only for the sake of diminishing the dryness of recital, and of giving an identity to each place which might better impress it on the memory of the young, but from a wish to omit no opportunity that presented itself of briefly noticing those things and circumstances, which may be read when pressed on the attention, but which are otherwise frequently neglected to be sought for. The Author is aware that this intention, with whatever |