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By his diligent study he became the best English geographer of his time; he was the historiographer of the East India Company, and the best informed man in England concerning the races, climates, and productions of all parts of the globe. It was at Hakluyt's suggestion that two vessels were sent out from Plymouth in 1603 to verify Gosnold's report of his new short route.
But to return from this slight digression; Artemidorus has been already mentioned as a geographer subsequent to Agatharcides, who copied Agatharcides, and from whom Diodorus Siculus and Strabo in their turns copied.
And at that time I was grateful to my friend the geographer for his advice. True, Feuerbach seemed to me to shatter many things which from a child I had held sacred; yet I thought I discovered behind the falling masonry the image of eternal truth.
From his first walk he is the geographer. "Each little walk is a tour of discovery; each object the chair, the wall is an America, a new world, which he either goes around to see if it be an island, or whose coast he follows to discover if it be a continent.
"And we shall neither have CHARQUI, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?" "Oh, Monsieur," said Olbinett in an aggrieved tone. "I don't want to hurt your feelings, my friend," said the geographer smiling. "But for a month that has been our usual bill of fare, and when we dined we stretched ourselves full length on the ground, unless we sat astride on the trees.
The old-fashioned letter s, resembling an f, made Hame de sille look like Hame de fille, and a French geographer jumped at the conclusion that the word was fille, and that he had found the long lost island. He called it accordingly I. des Filles,* Island of Girls.
Starting then once more with the simple biological formula: ENVIRONMENT ... CONDITIONS ... ORGANISM this has but to be applied and defined by the social geographer to become REGION ... OCCUPATION ... FAMILY-type and Developments which summarises precisely that doctrine of Montesquieu and his successors already insisted on. For Place, it is plain, is no mere topographic site.
Henry IV had great political intelligence, and moreover desired, in general, to befriend those who had proved loyal during his doubtful days. His political sagacity should have led him to see the value of colonial expansion, and his willingness to advance faithful followers should have brought Champlain something better than his pension and the title of Geographer.
It was while he was occupied with cares like these that his attention was called to the intellectual wants of this region, a region now swarming with population, rich with culture, and resounding with the clang of machinery, a region which now sends forth fleets laden with its admirable fabrics to the lands of which, in his days, no geographer had ever heard, then a wild, a poor, a half barbarous tract, lying on the utmost verge of the known world.
"We could not have had a better; but I must apprise your Lordship that I did not go through the Straits of Magellan again." "What! you doubled Cape Horn, and I was not there!" exclaimed Paganel. "Hang yourself!" said the Major. "Selfish fellow! you advise me to do that because you want my rope," retorted the geographer.
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