Letters To A Child On The Subject Of Maritime Discovery

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Excerpt from Letters to a Child: On the Subject of Maritime Discovery The following sheets are literally what they profess to be, "Letters to a Child, on the progress of maritime discovery." In compiling them, I have found it difficult to make a selection of such particulars as seemed the least common-place; at the same time that it was necessary to arrange these with attention to chronological order, and to notice whatever appeared most likely to prove interesting to children, though it might take off from any pretensions to originality. Of course, indeed, these are almost excluded by the nature of the work. It was chiefly my wish to call the attention of a child to the steps by which our knowledge of geography has been attained. This opens a source of practical instruction, as well as of interest; and, in the hands of a wise and judicious instructor, I cannot help hoping my little volume may be made the first step to a course of much more valuable reading. 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.

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