RT BEING AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE American Univerfal Geography. CONTAINING ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY; DISCOVERY and GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF AMERICA; GENERAL VIEW of the UNITED STATES; PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and of all the KINGDOMS, STATES, and REPUBLIC in the known WORLD, In regard to their Boundaries, Extent, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, Population, Character, Government, Trade, Manufac tures, Curiofities, History, Sc. TO WHICH IS ADDED, An improved CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of REMARKA Calculated particularly for the USE and IMPROVEMENT. of SCHOOLS and ACAD- BY JEDIDIHMORSE, D. d. Minifter of the Congregational Church in Charletown, Maffa.-Author of the EIGHTH EDITION corrected by the AUTHOR. Published according to A of Congrefs. There is not a Son or Daughter of Adam but has fome concern both in PRINTED AT BOSTON, BY I. THOMAS and E. T. ANDREWS, Sold by faid Thomas & Andreaus, and other Bookfellers, in Rotton; I. Thoma PUBLIC LIBRARY 158781 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1889. TO THE Young Masters and Misses Throughout the UNITED STATES, EASY INTRODUCTION To the USEFUL and ENTERTAINING SCIENCE OF GEOGRAPHY, Compiled particularly for their USE, Is Dedicated, With the warmest Wishes for their · Eurly: Improvement In every thing that fhall make them truly happy, By their humble Servant, THE AUTHOR. ADVERTISEMENT. It is NO national government bids out to its ful,cs so many alluring motives to obtain an accurate knowledge of their own country, and of its various verite, as that of United America. By the fretam of our elections, public bonours and public files are not confined to any one class of men, but ore fired to merit, in such stover rönk it may b: found. To charge the duties of putar thie with bonour and applaaf, the bytery, pulty, commerce, produkhens, particular advantages, and intere), of the fecival Stater, ought to b. throughs underct. It is charly wife and prud.nt then, to initiate our youth in the kindge of thefe things, and thus to form their minds upon republican principles, and prepare them for future unfuine's and hencur. There is no fence better adapted to the capacities of youth, and more apt to captivate their attention, than Geography. An acquaintance with this juence, more than with any other, fatisfies that pertinent curicity, which is the predominating feature of the youthful mind. to be lamented that this part of education has been fo leng neglected in America. Our young men, univerfalls, have been much better acquainted with the Geography of Europe und Ara, than raite that of their own. Stire and Country. The want of Juitable becks on this fubject has been the caufe, we hope the jule banjo, of tins flameful deject in our education. Till within a jêngyears, we have feidom pretended to write, and hardly to bink for ourselves. We have bumbly received from Great Britain, our laws, eur manners, our books, and our modes of thinking; and our youth have been educated, rather as the fubjects of the Brf king, than as the citizens of a free and independent Republic. But the scene is now changed. The revolution bas been favourable to feience in general; particularly to that of the geography of our own country. In the following sheets, the Author has endeavoured to bring this valuable branch of knowledge heme to common Schools, Schools, and to the cottage fire fide, by comprising in a fmall and cheap volume, the most entertaining and interefting part of his large work. He has endeavoured to accommodate it to the use of fchools as a reading book, that our youth of both fexes, at the fame time that they are learning to read, might imbibe an acquaintance with their country, and an attachment to its interefts, and, in that forming period of their lives, begin to qualify themselves to act their feveral parts in life with reputation to themselves, and with usefulness to their country. That the labours of the Author may be a benefit to the youth of that country which he loves, and which he has Jedulously explored, is his moft ardent wifh. DIRECTIONS to the BOOKBINDER for PLACING the MAPS. The Map of the World to face the Map of North America, Title Page. page 76 TICKYBA |