A System of Modern Geography Comprising a Description of the Present State of the World: And Its Five Great Divisions, America, Europe, Asia, Africa, ... Territories, &C., The Whole Embellished by Nu - Softcover
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The engraving has been executed by the best artists in that line in the country, who have used every endeavour to render the lettering clear, dis tinct, and easily understood. A matter of some moment to the pupil, who is freq uently much perplexed in ascertaining the names of places, when inserted among the dark and obscure shading so common in the maps of many school geographies.
The characters designating the location of some of the most important events connected with the history of our country. Are new in works of this kind and with the annexed dates, will render the maps useful to those pu pils studying the history of the United States.
The distances from the countries on one continent to those on others, in the same parallels of latitude. Are interesting as pointing out the Width of the oceans, seas, &c., that separate the chief divisions of the earth.
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