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Richard Ford Accomplished What Before His Time Might Have...

deemed impossible. He wrote a guide-book which was a work of genius. The celebrated Handbook of Spain, long since out of print, is by far the best description of a country ever......

Now That Most Of The Great Geographical Riddles Of The

world have been solved, exploration will tend to become exploita- tion, and we may look for minute information on subjects of which at present our knowledge is vague and......