Excerpt from Geography of Africa
In writing this text-book two main principles have, as far as possible, been kept in view throughout. In the first place, the rule laid down by Dr. Mill in the General Geography of this series, of proceeding from the general to the particular, has been adhered to; and in the second, a clear understanding of the broad physical features of each region described has been taken as the necessary basis on which to build up the complete picture of such region as the sphere of human activity. Thus the first four chapters are devoted to a consideration of the broad facts which apply to the continent as a whole: and in these, as in each subsequent chapter, the following order has been observed. The physical description starts from the more general characteristics of form, structure, and relief, the hydrographical features to which these give rise being next dealt with, after which a brief description of the chief climatic influences at work prepares the way for the account of the vegetable and animal life.
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