A geographical and statistical display of the locality, relation, superficies, and population of each county, section, district, and colony of the British Empire ... Russia, Prussia, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the peninsula of Spain and Portugal, and the United States of North America, and China.

  • Marshall, John, 1783-1841.
Date:
[1833?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A geographical and statistical display of the locality, relation, superficies, and population of each county, section, district, and colony of the British Empire ... Russia, Prussia, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the peninsula of Spain and Portugal, and the United States of North America, and China. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DISPLAY OF THE LOCALITY, RELATION, SUPERFICIES, AND POPULATION OF EACH COUNTY, SECTION, DISTRICT, AND COLONY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE; THE NATURAL INFLUENCE OF EACH, AS INDICATED BY THE iittmbcv of Bivtljs an& Dcntijs, In each Year, through a Period of more than Half a Century, and the Resources and Condition of each, as exemplified in its PRODUCTION, RENTAL, TAXATION, PAUPERISM, AND CRIME, WITH A LIKE DISPLAY OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND RELATION, SUPERFICIES, POPULATION, AND REVENUES OF THE SEVERAL PROVINCES AND DISTRICTS OF RUSSIA, PRUSSIA, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, AND THE PENINSULA OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, AND THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, AND CHINA. Every line a lesson—every page a history. “ Statesmen and legislators should be men of superior intellectual attainment, and sound education ; they should be profoundly versed in history, especially the history of their own country, and more especially that portion of it to which the least attention has hitherto been paid, viz. the condition of the great mass of the Population at different periods; and of the influence of existing laws and institutions in improving or deteriorating that condition : they should be conversant with Statistics, familiar with the details of numbers, extent, occupation, &c., of the different Provinces of the British Empire, and of the countries with which she has intercourse, whether commercially or politically: they should he able to select, combine, and arrange all these materials with the master-hand of true philosophers.”