Synopsis

MY DEAREST NIECE_, I HAVE told you, that you will not be able to read history, with much pleasure or advantage, without some little knowledge of _Geography_ and _Chronology_. They are both very easily attained--I mean in the degree that will be necessary for you. You must be sensible that you can know but little of a country, whose situation with respect to the rest of the world you are entirely ignorant of; and, that it is to little purpose that you are able to mention a fact, if you cannot nearly ascertain the _time_ in which it happened, which alone, in many cases, gives importance to the fact itself.