Excerpt from High School Geography

Of late years the study of Physical Geography has made rapid advances, it forms part of the course of study in higher schools, and has its lectureships and professorships in various universities of the United States and Europe. It is recognized not only as an important study in itself, cultivating the habit of observation and of associating cause and effect, but also as an introduction, or rather an incitement, to the study of various sciences.

Physical Geography, "a description of Nature in what pertains to the Earth, " is eclectic in character. Resting mainly on Geology, and only to a less degree upon Meteorology, it reaches out to Astronomy, to Mineralogy, to Chemistry, to Biology, and even to History and Political Economy.

The present book, while giving numerous facts, endeavors, in all the subjects dealt with, to keep principles steadily in view, to refer effects to causes, to follow causes to effects, to give theory as theory, and fact as fact. But a book alone is not enough, field work is a necessity, facts from the out-door experience of both teacher and taught are the very life of the subject.

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