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    the essence , not merely of many paces , but of many volumes . From half a dozen to half a score such tables , hung round a room , would tout at once before the eye all the real information which , with much time and toil , would be obtained from a costly geographical library . The sheet is divided longitudinally into thirteen columns , over which , by a judicious alternation of colouring , the eye ranges without any sensation of weariness or indistinctness . They contain 1 , the quarter of the globe ; 2 , the name of the river ;

    3 , the country and province in which it rises ; 4 , the town , mountain , or other remarkable object at or near its rise ; 5 , the latitude and longitude of its source ; 6 , the countries and provinces which it runs through or divides , together with the bearings of its course from one position to another ; 7 , the cities or towns oiror near it ; 8 , the chief tributary streams in the order in which they fall into the principal stream , whether on the right or left bank , and the length of their course to the junction ; 9 , this column is headed " navigable , " and states much more than it promises , in many instances giving the breadth of

    the stream , and the different distances to which it may be ascended by differ- ! ent classes of vessels , from the flat-bottomed boat to the man of war , with other collateral information ; 10 , the length of the river , * or which the authority is given , and as there is much discordance on this point , the conflicting statements are inserted ; 11 , the sea into which it fells , with its local form of gulf , bay , channel , &c . ; 12 , the towns , &c , at or near its mouth or

    mouths ; and , 13 , the latitude and longitude of this termination of its course . The history of the river is thus traced in all its windings , and its accessions , and its connexions with the abodes of commerce and the boundaries of dominion , from the commencement of its course in the tiny spring , to its close in the c < deep unfathomable sea , " which if it be , indeed , " a grave meet for immortal souls , " is worthy to receive into its bosom the streams whose unfailing renovation makes them as enduring as the everlasting hills .

    By way of specimen we will trace the first river across the chart , through the several divisions which have just been enumerated : for example , the Danube , in Europe : " Danube , ancient Ister Swabia , in Grand Duchy of Baden Donau Echingen 48 , 5 N . 8 , 10 E . E , NE , Swabia ; NE , N , SE , Bavaria and Austria ; S , from the town of Vaitz , Low . Hungary ; SEbE , Up . Hungary , and E 1 ) S , from Servia ; SSE , E b N , E b S , N , E , Wallachia and Bessarabia from Bulgaria Ulm , Ingolstadt , Ratisbon , Passau , Lintz , Vienna ,

    Pre 8 burg , Vaitz , Buda , Peterwardein , Belgrade , Widden , Nikopoli , Silistria , Braylov , Galatz , Ismail , Kilia Iller , Lech 120 miles , Iser 180 , Inn 240 , Morava 150 , Waag 165 , Drave 360 , with Murr 225 , Theisse 495 , with Maros 330 , Save 330 , Morava , in Servia , 210 , Alouta , 300 , Sereth 300 , Pruth 390 To Ulm for boats ; in some parts for large ships , but not by the mouths 1833 miles , Smith ; 1800 , Edin . Gaz . 1710 , Malte-Bmn . Black Sea by six mouths Kilia , &c , &c . 44 , 35 to 45 , 25 N . 29 , 20 to 29 , 45 E . "

    In this manner has Mr . Smallfield g iven a summary of what is most important to be known of the principal rivers in the world . His plan includes about 70 , ( with nearly 600 tributaries , ) of which several are formed by the union of two or more large rivers , as the Mississippi and Missouri in North America , and the Rio de la Plata , Paraguay , and Parana , in South America . With the exception of the Thames , and it would have been inexcusable not to have made that exception , no stream is introduced whose length does not exceed 300 miles . It is to be hoped that he will serve up the small fry afterwards . Their lesser dimensions will be no objection , provided they have claims on our attention , for there is before us sufficient evidence of his

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1829, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2568/page/15/