FIRENZE

THIRD REVISED EDITION.

A SYSTEM OF

MODERN GEOGRAPHY,

OPRISING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE

WORLD,

AND ITS FIVE GREAT DIVISIONS,

AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND OCEANICA,

WITH THEIR SEVERAL

EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, TERRITORIES, ETC.

EMBELLISHED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS,
ADAPTED TO THE CAPACITY OF YOUTH.

ATLAS OF TWENTY-EIGHT MAPS,

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED TO ACCOMPANY THE WORK.

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PHILADELPHIA:

THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO.
1851.

N. B.-The boundaries of California, Texas, and the new Territories, recently organized by Congress, are in this edition correctly represented on the Map of the United States, in the Atlas, and the text corresponding therewith is properly arranged in the Geography.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PRINTED BY SMITH AND PETERS,
Franklin Buildings, 6th St., below Arch.

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ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE THIRD REVISED EDITION.

THE various changes, political and territorial, that have occurred in our own country, as well as in other parts of the world, within the last few years, have rendered indispensable a new revision of the present Geography and Atlas. In making the necessary alterations and additions, the latest and most authentic sources of information have been in all cases consulted; and special care has been taken to avoid infringing in any manner upon the original arrangement and style of the work; while the improvements introduced into it are believed to be of such a nature as will assist in sustaining its high character, and materially increase its usefulness for the purposes of education.

The recent conquest of the Mexican provinces of Upper California and New Mexico, and their cession to the United States, as well as the organization of the new territor of Minnesota, have all been appropriately treated in the text, and their position and bounds correctly represented on the general map of the United States; while, at the same time, on many of the state maps, such improvements have been made by the insertion of New Counties, Railroads, Towns, &c., as are demanded by the rapid social increase of all sections of the Union. The Maps of Foreign Countries also have received such corrections as recent changes have rendered necessary. The addition of a new Map in the Atlas, comprising Mexico, Guatimala, and the West Indies, will still further enhance the value of that portion of the work, and render it the most complete of all the books of its class.

Since the first publication of the present work, ten years ago, it has undergone three distinct revisions, and very considerable additions have been made in every portion of it. The Maps of the Atlas have been increased from sixteen to twenty-eight in number, the geogra phical and statistical tables have been added entire, and a variety of necessary alterations have been made in the text, the whole of which the author and publishers are pleased to learn have been highly approved by their numerous friends among the Teachers in all parts of the Union; and they confidently hope that the present edition will be found still more entitled to the high degree of popular favour with which the former impressions have been every where received.

PHILADELPHIA, October 1st, 1849.

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