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RUDIMENTS

OF

GEOGRAPHY,

ON A NEW PLAN.

DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE MEMORY BY

COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION ;

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OF

MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES.

ACCOMPANIED WITH AN

ATLAS,

EXHIBITING THE

PREVAILING RELIGIONS, FORMS OF GOVERNMENT,

DEGREES OF CIVILIZATION,

AND THE COMPARATIVE SIZE OF


TOWNS, RIVERS, AND MOUNTAINS.


BY WILLIAM C. WOODBRIDGE, A.M.
Author of the Elements of Universal Geography.


Fourth Edition.

FROM THE THIRD IMPROVED EDITION.

HARTFORD :

OLIVER D. COOKE AND SONS.

1823.

(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
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19th Century geography texts such as this one covered many topics including Religion. Much of the information on world religions and other peoples in these books is inaccurate or stereotypic, as illustrated in the discussion and depiction of "Pagans" on page 51 (to see, click on the Select a page menu above) or of the "Polynesians" on page 151. Catastrophes like fires, earthquakes, and avalanches were also of great interest. (See page 120 for an example.) It was not unusual for students, who owned their own books, to write their names in their books in ink, as Eunice Nims did in this geography book (see frontispiece on the Select a page menu above).

 

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"Rudiments of Geography"

publisher   Oliver D. Cooke and Sons
author   William Channing Woodbridge (1794-1845)
date   1823
location   Hartford, Connecticut
height   5.75"
width   3.5"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Books/Textbook / Schoolbooks
accession #   #L00.013


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"Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification"

"A System of School Geography"

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