The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography; Embracing a History of the World, From the Creation to the Present Day, Vol. 1

Excerpt from The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography; Embracing a History of the World, From the Creation to the Present Day

As subservient to the improvements above alluded to, we must acknowledge the agency of numerous contrivances by means of maps, charts, engravings, and copious statistical tables, and also of a distinction of type between what is more and what is less essential in the subject matter of a treatise. Several of these contrivances, as well as of the more general improvements; have been extended to historical productions, as books designed for education and especially ?eat help has been derived from the last named particular  the use of difierentsnzes of type.