GEOGRAPHY MADE EASY: BEING AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE American Universal Geography. CONTAINING ASTRONOMICAL GEOGRAPHY; DISCOVERY and GENERAL DESCRIPTION of AMERICA; GENERAL VIEW of the UNITED STATES; PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS of the UNITED STATES of AMER ICA, and of all the KINGDOMS, STATES, and REPUBLICS in the known WORLD, In regard to their Boundaries, Extent, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, Population, Character, Government, Trade, Manufactures, Curiosities, History, &c. TO WHICH IS ADDED, An improved CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE of REMARKABLE EVENTS, from the Creation to the present time. Illustrated with a MAP of the WORLD, and a MAP of NORTH AMERICA. Calculated particularly for the USE and IMPROVEMENT of SCHOOLS and ACAD EMIES in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. By JEDIDIAH MORSE, D. D. Minister of the Congregation in Charlestown, Massachusetts--Author of the American Universal Geography, and the American Gazetteer. SIXTH EDITION, corrected by the AUTHOR. Published according to Lib. of Congress. There is not a Son or Daughter of Adam but has some concern both in GEOGRAPHY and ASTRONOMY. Dr. Watts Among those Studies which are usually recommended to young people, there are few that might be improved to better use than GEOGRAPHY. Essays on various Subjects. PRINTED at BOSTON, By I. THOMAS and E. T. ANDREWS, FAUST’S STATUE, No. 45, NEWBURY STREET. Sold by Thomas & Andrews, and other Booksellers, in Boston; I. Thomas, Worcester; S. Campbell, New York; Thomas, Andrews, & Penniman, Albany; M. Carey, Philadelphia; and Thomas, Andrews, & Butler, Baltimore.--1798.

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Early geography schoolbooks such as this one provided children of the time (who had no TV, radio or movies and few newspapers) with a "window to the world." Geography books also gave the children an introduction to the states and territories of the newly established American Republic (Page 132 shows the description of Massachusetts at this time). Special attention was often paid in geography texts to "latest discoveries." You will note on the frontispiece of this book "A New Map of the World" which still has many blank areas, especially near the north and south poles, which had not yet been explored. Early geography also often contained histories. This one has a "Chronological Table of Remarkable Events", from the Creation to the present time.

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