Excerpt from The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe E are about to start on a long and distant journey over land and sea. W' e are to make a grand tour, during which we shall visit in company many foreign countries. It may be well, therefore, before we start, to do what all wise travellers do, try to gain a few ideas regarding the general appearance of the great world over which we are to travel together for so long. But first of all let us endeavour to learn something Of the names of those who have gone before us. 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.