Calendar: 1863-1864 Page 279

EVENING CLASSES 279 The races by whom Europe is inhabited-Their rela- tive numbers and respective growth VI VII The political division of Europe-At the Christ- ian era-In the 9th century-In the 15th and 16th centuries-At the present day VIII -XI Western Europe-Its present population-Their manufacturing and commercial supremacy-The great cities of Britain France and the Nether- lands XII -XIV Southern Europe-The Mediterranean lands- The Spanish Italian and Grecian Peninsulas- Turkey its present condition and prospects XV XVI The Nations of Central Europe-The German States-Industrial and Social Life of Germany- The Great Cities of Germany XVII XVIII Northern and Eastern Europe-The Scan- dinavian Peninsula-The Sclavonic Races-Russia and Poland II -Geographical Discovert Maritime and Inland The Geographical Knowledge of the Ancients- Theoretic Systems of the Ancient Geographers- The Ionian and Alexandrian Schools II -IV Commercial Intercourse between the East and the West-The Indian Trade-Routes across the Desert-Early Voyages of the Phoenicians- Herodotus-The Persian Expedition of Alexander the Great-Foundation of Alexandria-The Roman World-The Geographical Writingsof the Ancients -Strabo-Ptolemy-The Roman Itineraries VI Geography of the Arabians-The Caliphat-The Religious Pilgrimages of the Mohammedans-Their connexion with commercial intercourse and with the extension of geographical knowledge