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OF

MODERN GEOGRAPHY,

OR A

VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE

F

THE WORLD.

WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING STATISTICAL TABLES OF
THE POPULATION, COMMERCE, REVENUE, EXPENDITURE,
DEBT, AND VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED
STATES; AND GENERAL VIEWS OF EUROPE AND THE
WORLD.

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BY GEORGE CLARK, BOSTON; AND HOWE & SPALDING, NEW HAVEN,

Jonathan Howe, Printer, Boston.

Sept. 1822.

1873, March 1:
Gratis.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Office.

KE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-seventh day of August, in the forty-seventh year of the ludependence of the United States of America, Sidney E. Morse, A. M. of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit:

A New System of Modern Geography, or a View of the Present State of the World. With an Appendix, containing Statistical Tables of the Popu lation, Commerce, Revenue, Expenditure, Debt, and various Institutions of the United States; and General Views of Europe and the World. By Sidey E. Morse, A. M. Accompanied with an Atlas.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act upplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learnag, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extendng the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching istorical and other Prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS, {Clerk of the District

of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

Is the best treatises on Universal Geography in the nglish language we look in vain for that beautiful orer and lucid arrangement which so much delight us other sciences. In geometry we are presented with series of propositions connected together in regular rder, each growing easily and naturally out of those thich preceded it; but in geography, though the subect admits to a considerable extent of the same arangement, towns, rivers, mountains, colleges, and caals are thrown together without any reference to heir natural connection. Such confusion may not seriusly incommode the man who is already thoroughly cquainted with the subject, or who consults his gegraphy merely as a book of reference; but the stuent, who reads the work in course, and whose aim is o get clear and connected views of a whole country, aust peruse the description again and again, before le can accomplish his object, even if the materials which are furnished in this loose manner will allow im to do it at all.

The natural order of description seems to require hat we should in the first place give the boundaries of a country, the divisions, capes and bays, because hese can be perfectly understood without reference o any thing which is to come afterwards, while at the ame time the mind, by becoming familiarized with erms which will frequently occur, is prepared in the appiest manner for the subsequent parts of the decription. After this preparation, the next step should Isually be to describe the face of the country, and esecially to draw distinctly the great mountain lines. Rivers should come after mountains, because the

in which they run is commonly determined by

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