Comparative Geography

About this eBook

Author

Ritter, Carl, 1779-1859

Title

Comparative geography

Original Publication

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865.

Credits

Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

GB: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Physical geography

Subject

Physical geography

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73615

Release Date

May 13, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — The Earth as the Dwelling-place of Man. — Geography as a Science. — What Geography as a Science has yet to accomplish. — Sources of Geographical Science. — The Sciences illustrative of Geography.
5. 5.COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY. — PART I. THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH CONSIDERED IN ITS MOST GENERAL RELATIONS. — The Spheroidal Form of the Earth. — The Threefold Covering of the Earth. — The Superficial Dimensions of the Land and Water on the Globe. — Contrast of the Land and Water Hemispheres. — The Position of the Continents and its Influence on the Course of History. — The Pyramidal Forms of the Great Land-masses, and their Southward Direction toward the Oceanic Hemisphere. — Situation of the Continents in their Relation to Each Other and to their Collective Whole. — The Historical Element in Geographical Science.
6. 6.PART II. — A more extended Investigation regarding the Earth’s Surface. — Highlands. — Highlands or Plateaus of the First Class. — Plateaus of the Second Class. — Mountains and Mountain Lands. — The Relations of Plateau Systems. — Primeval Formation of Plateaus and Mountains. — Origin of Plateaus. — The Origin of Mountains. — Lowlands. — The Middle European Lowlands. — The Origin of the Great Central European Plain. — The Ponto-Caspian Plain, the Great Depression of the Old World. — The Origin of the Ponto-Caspian Depression. — The Depression of the Jordan Valley and of the Dead Sea. — The Bitter Lakes of the Suez Isthmus. — The Regions of Transition between Highlands and Lowlands; the River Systems of the Globe. — Terrace Lands and Rivers in their General Character. — Rivers more closely considered. — Upper Course of Rivers. — The Middle Course. — Lower Course. — Review.
7. 7.PART III. — The Configuration of the Continents. — The Superficial Dimensions and Articulation of the Continents. — Islands. — The Results of the above Considerations briefly stated. — The New World.
8. 8.FOOTNOTES

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