This Giddy Globe
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Herford Oliver. This Giddy Globe
PART I. WHY IS THE GLOBE?
CHAPTER I. THE CREATION
PREFACE
CHAPTER II. A LONG JUMP
CHAPTER III. THE GIDDY GLOBE
CHAPTER IV. THE USE OF THE GLOBE
CHAPTER V. THE EQUATOR
CHAPTER VI. THE EARTH’S CRUST
CHAPTER VII. THE TEMPERATURE OF THE GLOBE
CHAPTER VIII. THE AGE OF THE GLOBE
CHAPTER IX. THE FACE OF THE GLOBE
CHAPTER X. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
CHAPTER XI. LAND AND WATER
CHAPTER XII. THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER XIII. THE HABITABLE GLOBE
CHAPTER XIV. THE TENANTS
CHAPTER XV. RACE
CHAPTER XVI. GOVERNMENTS OF THE GLOBE
CHAPTER XVII. THE MORALS OF THE GIDDY GLOBE
PART II. THE COUNTRIES OF THE EARTH
CHAPTER XVIII. THE POLES
CHAPTER XIX. AMERICA
CHAPTER XX. BOSTON
CHAPTER XXI. THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER XXII. CANADA
CHAPTER XXIII. GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER XXIV. SCOTLAND
CHAPTER XXV. IRELAND
CHAPTER XXVI. WALES
PART III. FOREIGN COUNTRIES
CHAPTER XXVII. SOUTH AMERICA
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOLLAND
CHAPTER XXIX. BELGIUM
CHAPTER XXX. FRANCE
CHAPTER XXXI. GERMANY
CHAPTER XXXII. SWITZERLAND
CHAPTER XXXIII. MONACO
CHAPTER XXXIV. TURKEY
CHAPTER XXXV. RUSSIA
CHAPTER XXXVI. NORWAY AND SWEDEN
CHAPTER XXXVII. AFRICA
CHAPTER XXXVIII. ARABIA
CHAPTER XXXIX. AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER XL. CHINA
CHAPTER XLI. JAPAN
CHAPTER XLII. EGYPT, INDIA, ITALY, SPAIN, GREECE, ETC
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX
THE APPENDIX
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It takes much longer to write a Geography than, according to Moses, it took to create the World which it is the Geographer’s business to describe; and since the Critic has been added to the list of created beings, it is no longer the fashion for the Author to pass judgment on his own work.
Let us imagine, however, that concealed in the cargo of Hypothetic Nebula destined for the construction of the Terrestrial Globe was a Protoplasmic Stowaway that sprang to being in the shape of a Critic just as the work of Creation was finished.
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