Abstract
M. GIRARD says very justly in his preface that geographers have not as yet given the coast lines of the world the attention to which these features are entitled. He accordingly prepared the present little bobok, which has appeared, chapter by chapter, in the Revue de Géographie. It is unquestionably a useful compilation, but it is far from complete in any part; and it has been so carelessly revised, that a number of printer's errors remain unnoticed. In the names of places outside France the letters u and u are frequently transposed. Bab-el-mandeb appears as Bal-el-Mandel, and an extraneous r creeps into several names beginning with G, e.g. Granges for Ganges, and Gruppy or Grupy for Guppy. More serious are blunders in statements of facts, such as describing the whirlpool of Corryvrechan as being near the island of “Scabra,” dans les lacs d'Ecosse, the transference of the Grey Man Path from the north of Ireland to the west of Scotland, and the description of the Old Man of Hoy as the result of erosion in schistose rock, whereas it is a mass of horizontally stratified Old Red Sandstone. These examples might be considerably reinforced were detailed criticism necessary, but a graver defect is the way in which work done by others than Frenchmen has been ignored. Reference is certainly made to several British, German, Russian, and American writers, but rarely at first hand, and many works of the first importance have been entirely overlooked.
La Géographie littorale.
Par Jules Girard, Secrétaire-adjoint de la Société de Géographie (Paris). (Paris: Société d'Editions Scientifiques, 1895 [1894.])
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M., H. Our Book Shelf. Nature 50, 615–616 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050615b0
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