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The American geography : or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America : containing astronomical geography--geographical definitions, discovery, and general description ... with a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory, and Vermont ... to which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch dominions in America and the West-Indies--of Europe, Asia, and Africa

Print Book, English, MDCCXCII [1792]
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Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, MDCCXCII [1792]
Early works
xvi, 536 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 21 cm (8vo)
1202307
(from title page) Containing, Astronomical geography
Geographical definitions
Discovery and general description of America and the United States
Of their boundaries, mountains, lakes, bays and rivers, natural history, productions, population, government, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and history
A concise account of the war, and of the important events which have succeeded
With a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory, and Vermont
Of their extent, civil divisions, chief towns, climates, soils, trade, character, constitutions, courts of justice, colleges, academies, religion, islands, Indians, literary and humane societies, springs, curiosities, histories, &c
To which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West-Indies
Of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Provenance: Friends' Free Library, Germantown
"Illustrated with two sheet maps--one of the southern, the other of the northern states--from the latest surveys."
Folded table following page 536: Evans's polymetric table of America, corrected and improved