Excerpt from The Upper Thames Country and the Severn-Avon Plain In spite of much that has been said of late years by leading Geographers, there is still a regrettable lack of comprehension and real appreciation of the regional conception of geography, and its great educational value does not seem to be understood. This study of the central scarpland country of England is worked out entirely on a regional basis, and it is hoped that it may give a clear idea of the method. It is also hoped very strongly that no one will try to use any one part of the book by itself. The working of cause and effect has been gradually elucidated throughout its whole course, and no one section can be properly understood without its predecessors. Neither Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, nor Buckinghamshire can be studied as a separate natural unit. Each is composed of parts of various natural regions, the whole of which must be considered if any satisfactory geographical conceptions are to be obtained. The chapter on Oxfordshire, the central part of the area studied, is only added for the sake of giving a right geographical colouring to local administrative interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.