AMERICAN EDITION.
The American edition of the Encyclopædia of Geography has
been carefully revised and corrected throughout, and brought down
to the period of its publication by such modifications of the original
text as the nature of the changes to be made seemed to require
Thus new and more recent statements of the commercial, financial,
political, and other relations of countries have been often substituted
for those given in the English edition of the work, and the results
of late discoveries have been interwoven with the original matter, or
have served to rectify some antiquated error, the gradual removing
of which from our manuals forms at present an important part of
the task of the geographical compiler. The portion of the work relating
to the United States has been written anew, and fills two
hundred pages; that of the English edition comprising only thirty-three
pages and being extremely meagre. A new and larger map
of this country has also been given, and woodcuts have been added
to the chapter devoted to its description.
