7
XII THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD 51
XIII THE HABITABLE GLOBE 52
XIV THE TENANTS 54
XV RACE 56
XVI GOVERNMENTS OF THE GLOBE 58
XVII THE MORALS OF THE GIDDY GLOBE 61

PART II: THE COUNTRIES OF THE EARTH

XVIII THE POLES 65
XIX AMERICA 70
XX BOSTON 75
XXI THE UNITED STATES 78
XXII CANADA 83
XXIII GREAT BRITAIN 86
XXIV SCOTLAND 90
XXV IRELAND 92
XXVI WALES 96

PART III: FOREIGN COUNTRIES

XXVII SOUTH AMERICA 101
XXVIII HOLLAND 103
XXIX BELGIUM 106
XXX FRANCE 109
XXXI GERMANY 111
XXXII SWITZERLAND 112
XXXIII MONACO 113
XXXIV TURKEY 114
XXXV RUSSIA 117
XXXVI NORWAY AND SWEDEN 119
XXXVII AFRICA 122
XXXVIII ARABIA 126
XXXIX AUSTRALIA 129
XL CHINA 131
XLI JAPAN 133
XLII EGYPT, INDIA, ITALY, SPAIN,
GREECE, ETC. 134
EPILOGUE 136
APPENDIX 137

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THIS GIDDY GLOBE

PART I

WHY IS THE GLOBE?

CHAPTER I

THE CREATION

_Six busy days it took in all_
_To make a World and plan its fall,_
_The seventh, SOMEONE said 'twas good_
_And rested, should you think he could?_
_Knowing what the result would be_
_There would have been no rest for me!_
_Claire Beecher Kummer._

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