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GEOGRAPHY - LoveToKnow Article on GEOGRAPHY (21067 words) |
 | Geography is a synthetic science, dependent for the data with which it deals on the resultand of specialized sciences such as astronomy, geology, oceanography, meteorology, biology and anthropology, as well as on topographical description. |
| General geography was divided into(I) the Absolute part, dealing with the form, dimensions, position and substance of the earth, the distribution of land and water, mountains, woods and deserts, hydrography (including all the waters of the earth) and the atmosphere; (2) the Relative part, including the celestial properties, i.e. |
| The compilation of geography books by uninstructed writers led to the pernicious habit, which is not yet wholly overcome, of reducing the general or physical part to a few pages of concentrated information, and expanding the particular or political part by including unrevised travellers stories and uncritical descriptions of the various countries of the world. |
| MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bight (110 words) |
| Bight, in geography, a wide bay formed by a bend or curve in a shoreline. |
| Benin, Bight of, bay in West Africa, forming the western part of the Gulf of Guinea. |
| The Bight of Benin extends from the mouth of the Volta River to... |
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