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Geography, Illustrated on a Popular Plan; For the Use of Schools and Young Persons
Geography Illustrated on a Popular Plan For the Use of Schools and Young Persons Author:Richard Phillips General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green Subjects: Geography Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr... more »ee trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: When he can get it, the wandering gipsy, in Hungary and Transylvania, has a horse; in Turkey an asi serves to carry his wife, a couple of his children, and his tent. When he arrives at any place that he likes, near a village or town, he unpacks, pitches his tent, ties his animal to a stake to graze, and remains there some weeks, unless he is driven away by the villagers, who suspect him of having purloined their geese, fowls,« less