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Whom life names , now the Father of tne Body of Dissenting Ministers , fs aot only yet living , but able to take part in the proceedings of the several Dissenting associations , chiefly for charitable purposes , with which he lias been so long and so honourably connected .
-A correct likeness of the author will increase the interest taken in this collection of his works by his numerour friends .
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110 J&vtew . >* - ± JButler s Geography of the Globe .
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Aut . III . — The Geography of the . Globe , containing a Description of its several Divisions of Land and Water : to which ere added , Problems on the Terrestrial and
Celestial Globes , and a Series of Questions for Examination : designed for the Use of Schools and Private Families . B y John Olding Butler , Teacher of Writing , Arithmetic and Geography . 12 mo . pp . 368 . Harvey and Darton . 4 ^ . 6 d .
MR , J . O . BUTLER is actively following * the example of his late excellent father [ see Mon . Repos . XVII . 5 J 1—674 ] in supplying our schQols and families with improved elementary books . Labour cannot be more usefully or honourably applied . This is an instructive and
intertain-^ ng summary " The Geography of the Globe : " it is generally accurate , ( as far as we have the means of ascertaining , ) and like the late Mr . Butler ' s works it communicates much useful information , while it guards
against the prejudices which are so apt to grow upon young persons with regard to ail countries but their own . The following extracts will shew the plan of the work , and may be taken as average specimens of its execution .
" Colon y of the Cape of Good Hope . «* Situation . The territory of the cape of Good Hope , which lies between the 30 th cleg , of S . latitude and the southern
extremity of Africa , was but of small extent when first formed by the Dutch East Itidia Company . It now extends 500 roilea from E . to W . and nearly 300 from N . to S . It belongs to Great Britain . The chief place is Cape Town .
" Cape Town , at the head of Table bay , and backed by a magnificent amphitheatre oi mountains , is large and populous , and the seat of the British government . The British East Imjiamen , and . in times
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of peace , the ships of other iiatioris , * ajte in provisions at this place , wheb outward bound . , .. i " Bays . Table and False bays , and that of Saldanha , which has the finest harbour of southern Africa , is capable of holding the largest fleets .
" Capes . The cape of Good Hope , and that of Aguillas . " The southern promontory of Afncja is a vast peninsular mass of rocky mountains joined to the main land by a sandy isthmus . Cape Aguillas is the extreme southern point of Africa , being in 34 deg . 58 min . 30 seconds of S . laL The
passage to the East Indies by the cape of Good Hope , was first made in 1497 , by Vasco de Gam a , a Portuguese . The discovery was one of those events which have most affected the fortunes of natioqs and individuals : the tide of commerce having been thereby diverted from tlje southern to the central and more
northern countries of Europe . " Surface . The country round the Cape has grand scenery , distinguished by stupendous cliffs , rugged rocks , and spiral-topt mountains . Some of the elevations are named from their configuration , the Table , ( 3500 feet high , ) the Lion , and the Sugar Loaf . t
Climate . Though the climate of the Cape is generally salubrious , it approaches to that of the torrid zone ; the greatest cold in July and August only producing light snow on the summits of the luouutains , and it is rarely sufficient to render
nres even comfortable . . V So great , * savs a modern traveller , * * was the heat while passing over the country , that I could not touch without pain part of the waggon which had been exposed to the sun . and the thermometer was then at
100 " . ' Products . The Cape produces wines * some of which are exported under the name of Cape Madeira . . The celebrated , Constantia , the produce of two vineyards only , is made at the village bearing its name . The country round the Cape abounds with fragrant and beautiful
plants , and the English green-house derives from it much of its exotic beauty . The numerous , and elegant families of heaths and geraniums , with * their crimson honours / and the fragrant and delicate jessamine , ^ are among the beauteous ornaments which wqow ^ to Southern Africa , whose entire Flora may be fairJy estimated at not less than ten thousand . !
* ' " -Mr . Campbell . " \ ' f « her jessamine remote ? ' > Jli Caffraia sends . ' * CowfErt's Task , the Gard&ir ( 1 ; t t " For this InfortaMtifln I atii iricRWfNl to Messrs . Loddiges , who have , in their
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/46/
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