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Exploring items similar to 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 of America. Summary account of the discoveries and settlements of North America; general view of the United States; of their boundaries; lakes; bays and rivers; mountains; production; population; government; agriculture; commerce and manufacture; history; concise account of the war and the important events which have succeeded. Biographical sketches of several illustrious heroes. General account of New England; of its boundaries; extent; division; mountains; rivers; natural history; production; population; character; trade; history. Particular descriptions of the thirteen United States, and of Kentucky, the western territory and Vermont. Their extent; civil division; chief town; claimants: rivers; mountains; soil; production; trade; manufactures; agriculture; population; character; constitution; courts of justice; colleges; academies and schools; religion; island; Indians; literary and humane societies; springs; curiosities; histories. Illustrated with two sheet maps -- one of the southern, the other of the northern states, neatly and elegantly engraved, and more correct than any that have hitherto been published. To which is added, a concise abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch dominions in America, and the West Indies--of Europe, Asia and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse.