NEW REVISED EDITION. A SYSTEM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY, COMPRISING A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT STATE OF TIIE 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. AN ATLAS CONTAINING THIRTY-TWO MAPS, DRAWN AND ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK. BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO. FOR SALE BY BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 1860. EDUCATION DEPT. G126 156 OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Philadelphia, Nov. 26th, 1859. At a meeting of the Controllers of Public Schools, First District of Pennsylvania, held at the Controllers' Chamber, on Monday, October 7th, 1839, the following Resolution was adopted : Resolved, That Mitchell's Geography and Atlas be introduced to be used in the Public Schools of this District. ROBERT J. HEMPHILL, Secretary. MITCHELL'S SERIES OF GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS is used in whole, or in Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1852, by S. Augustus Mitchell, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW REVISED EDITION. THE important geographical discoveries and changes, political and territorial, recently made, have rendered it necessary to revise and correct several pages of MITCHELL'S SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, and to re-engrave the Maps in the accompanying ATLAS. To show the absolute necessity of this revision, in order to keep the book "up with the times," they need only refer to some of the more important discoveries and changes of the last five years. In our own country, the territories of Washington, Kansas, and Nebraska have been organized; Minnesota and Oregon have become States; a large tract of country, known as the Gadsden Purchase, has been obtained from Mexico; and it is now proposed to establish the new Territories of Dacota, Arizona, Sierra Nevada, and Jefferson. On our own continent, we may point especially to the Arctic discoveries of the late much-lamented Dr. Kane, Captain McClure, and Captain McClintock. Of Africa, Dr. Barth has given us certain information of one section of which our former knowledge was vague and indefinite, while Dr. Livingstone has described to us another portion of this great peninsula, never before visited by a white man, and has enabled us to delineate upon the map the physical features of a country, and to locate places, of which we formerly knew nothing. In Asia we may refer to the greatly-increased extent of the Russian Empire-to the opening of the ports of Japan-and to many other changes, of importance. The author and publishers of this work, in presenting this new revised edition to the public, express their grateful acknowledgments for the unexampled encouragement extended to Mitchell's Geographical Series. They pledge themselves to renewed efforts to make these books even more worthy of the patronage which has been so generously bestowed upon them. M193175 (v) |