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Show LEA&: BLANCHARD•S NEW PUBLICATIONS. JOHNSTON'S PHYSICAL ATLAS. THE PHYSICAL ATLAS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA. FOR THE US£ OF COLLEGES, ACAD"EIIIIES, AND FAMILIES. BY ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F. R. G. S., F. G. S. In one large vulume, imperial quarto, handsomely bound, With Twenty-six Plates, Engraved and Colored in the best style. Together with 112 pages of Descriptive Letter-press, and a very copious Index. This splendid volume will fill a void long felt in this country, where no work has b een attainable presenting the results of the important science of Physical Geography in a distinct and tangible form. The list of plates subjoined will show both the design of the work and the manner in which its carrying out bas been attempted. The reputation of the author, and the unh·ersal approbation with which his Atlas has been received, a~e sufficient guarantees that no care has been spared to render the book complete and trustworthy. The engraving, printing, and coloring will all be found of the best and most accurate description. As but a small edition has been prepared, the publishers request all who may des.ire to procure copies of the work to send orders through their booksellers without delay. LIST OF PLATES. GEOLOGY. 1. Geological Structure of the Globe. 2. Moumain Chains of Europe and Asia. 3. Mountain Chams of America. 4. lllustrauon of the Glacaer System of the Alps. (Mont Blane.) 5. PbenomenaofVolcanic Action . P~~~o~~'it~~~'i~~a~~d~.G(~~~!;:~\:~f':!r.Jof HYDROGRAPHY. 1. Physical Chart of the Atlantic Ocean. 2. Physical Chan of the Indian Ocean. 3. Physical Chart of the Pacific Ocean or Great ea. 4 Tidal Chart of the British Seas. 5 The River Systems of Europe and AFia. 6. Th« River Systems of America. Tadal Chart oftb.e World. METEOROLOGY. 1. Humboldt's Sy>tem oflsothermal Lmes. 2. Geographical Dislribution of the Cur· rents of Arr. 3. Hyetographic or Rain Map of the World. 4. Hyeto-&r~lif~R~LRH~s:g&.yfEurope. 1. Geographical Distribution of Plants. 2. Geographical Distribution of the Culti vated Plants used as Food . 3. Geographical Distribution of Q.uadrn· mana, Edentata, Matsupialia, and Pachydermata. 4. GeographicalDistributio11 ofCarnivorn. 5. Geographical Distribution of Rodentia and Ruminantia. 6. Geographical Distribution of Birds. 7. Geographical Di&tnbution of Reptiles 8. Ethnographic Map ofthe World. 9. E~r:'d'f;!(:,;g_ Map of Great BrHain The intention of this work is to exhibit, in a popular and attractive form, the reaults of the researches ofnatu~alists and philosophers in all the more important branches of Natural Science. Its study requires no previous training; for while facts and deductions a:re stated according to the Strictest rules of scientific inquiry, they are by an ingenious application of colors, signs, and diagrams, communicated in a manner so simple and striking as to render them at once intelligible and easily retained. For the first time, in this country, the principles of graphic representation are here applied to the delineation of the most important facts of external phenomena. Simple but significant symbolical signs have been introduced |