A System of Universal Geography, for Common Schools...
Dwight, Nathaniel.
Price: $125.00
Book Id: 8518
Description
Dwight, Nathaniel. A System of Universal Geography, for Common Schools: in which Europe is divided according to the late at of the Congress of Vienna. Simeon Butler, Northampton, MA 1816. Sml. 8vo, 213pp, index. Original leather-backed paper covered wooden boards. Faint minor staining at ends, but generally a very good copy. Imprints 37480. Preface dated 1795. Q&A text on the continents of the world. Interesting on "Austral Asia" the "Asiatic isles" include New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland with the Solomon isles, New Caledonia with the New Hebrides, and New Zealand". On the Australian flora it quotes "the botany of no country in the world is more rich and varied than that of New Holland"; the minerals are "coal and rock salt", the inhabitants "near Port Jackson are ill made", and Port Jackson is "one of the noblest harbours in the world". More detail on VDL, Papua, New Britain, New Caledonia and NZ. On the United States, discussion of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan Territory, Illinois Territory, Indiana Territory, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi Territory, Country of Louisiana, Louisiana State, Missouri Territory, Florida.
