13 GEOGRAPHY .FOR THE USE OF AUSTRALIAN YOUTH BY JAMES BONWICK, Van Diemen's Land: SOLD BY S. A. TEGG, HOBART TOWN; JAMES DOWLING m Seran Hote IT PREFACE. may be deemed, at first, unnecessary to undertake the publication of a School Geography in Van Diemen's Land, since there are excellent works upon the subject from the English Press. But the writer, as a Teacher, has, in common with many others, experienced no little difficulty in communicating information respecting this land of our adoption and the various adjoining colonies, in consequence of the incorrectness or deficiencies of the usual school books. To supply such a demand, and to produce a Geography essentially adapted for Youth by the simplicity of its language, the following pages are respectfully submitted to the Public. The three accompanying Maps will be found to exhibit the sites of the new Settlements in Australia and New Zealand; they are the first Maps of the kind which have ever appeared in a School Geography. It is hoped that the notice taken of Physical Geography in this volume will serve as an additional recommendation of it, as considerable care has been employed in its compilation to render it comprehensive and attractive to the youthful reader. Hofwyl House, Nov. 1, 1845. |