A Chart of this kind will greatly facilitate the student's progress, and give him clearer ideas of the rise, duration, and fall of each kingdom and empire, than the perusal of many volumes. It is, in short, to History, what Maps are to Geography; and a mode of representation which gives a kind of locality to events; and conveys not only distinct ideas of distant events in any one country, but the relative occurrences of different nations.
C. Baldwin, Printer,
New Bridge-Street, London.
Notes
This is perfectly distinct from castor oil, which is the production of a vegetable seed.
Four inches make a hand. This is the usual mode of estimating the height of horses.