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THIS atlas astonishes and delights us. For two shillings and sixpence we at last get beautifully finished maps, showing the land and water hemispheres, and the lands which are blessed with an antipodes; a perspectic view of the globe; physical maps of the continents, Australasia, British Isles, and the Holy Land, a geological map of the British Isles, maps of ocean and river systems, ocean basins, winds and storms, annual isothermal lines, and range of temperature, distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes; the geographical distribution of useful plants and species, the chief animals, and varieties of man himself. There are, moreover, notes as to the preparation of the atlas, and an analytical index. We warmly congratulate Messrs Johnstons on their last achievement, and advise everybody to buy the atlas.
The Half-crown Atlas of Physical Geography.
By Keith Johnston, jun. 31 maps, printed in colours. Small 8vo. (Edinburgh, Johnston.)
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The Half-crown Atlas of Physical Geography. Nature 1, 81 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001081a0
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