Excerpt from A Short Introduction to Geography: To Which Is Added an Abridgement of Astronomy HE following little Treatife was drawn up feveral years fince for the ufe of my daughter, who began to tranflate it in the fourteenth year of her age for her amufement and infiruelion. Whether (he has acquitted herfelf well, confide'ring (he never had any other infiruetor but her Father, and was educated in' an obfcure village, muft be left to the determination of the candid and judicious Reader. 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.