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PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION.

THE principal object aimed at in this Volume is, to communicate, to those who have been engaged for some time in a course of liberal study, such information as shall not only facilitate the acquisition and cultivation of ancient learning, but connect the writings of the Classics with impressions and associations that will add to the profit and pleasure of perusing them.

But before entering upon those physical descriptions and geographical details of the orbis veteribus notus,' by which it is proposed to accomplish this object, there are certain views to be presented, and certain principles to be laid down, which, at the time of life and stage of progress contemplated in the composition of the book, will, it is hoped, be found no inappropriate introduction to a minuter acquaintance with the world we live in.

Recollecting the exhibition of a Planetarium in tl Rector's Class-room of the High School and D. Adam's exposition of its uses and movements,

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