BEING AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE American Universal Geography. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES IN THE UNITED 0000 BY JEDIDIAH MORSE, D. D. AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER. 0000 There is not a son or daughter of Adam, but has some concern both in Geography and Astronomy. DR. WATTS. ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP OF THE WORLD, AND A MAP OF NORTH-AMERICA. Seventeenth Edition, AND FIFTH OF THIS NEW ABRIDGEMENT. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS & ANDREWS. SOLD AT THEIR BOOKSTORE, NO. 45 NEWBURY-STREET BY EAST BURN KIRK, AND CO. NEW-YORK, M. CAREY, PHILADELPHIA; AND BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED STATES. J. T. BUCKINGHAM, FRINTER. Nov. 1814. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of April, in the thirty-third year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Jedidiah Morse, 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: "Geography made easy: being an Abridgement of the American Universal Geography. To which are prefixed Elements of Geography. For the use of Schools and Academies in the United States of America. By Jedidiah Morse, D. D. Author of the American Universal Geography, and the American Gazetteer. There is not a son or daughter of Adam, but has some concern both in Geography and Astronomy.'-Dr. Watts. Illustrated with a map of the World, and a map of North-America." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United Stats, 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 supplementary to an Act, 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 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching historical and other Prints." WILLIAM. S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. Education GIFT NO national government holds out to its subjects so many alluring motives to obtain an accurate knowledge of their own country, and of its various interests, as that of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By the freedom of our clections, public honors and public offices are not confined to any one class of men, but are offered to merit, in whatever rank it may be found. To discharge the duties of public office with honor and applause, the history, policy, commerce, productions, particular adva tages and interests of the several states ought to be thoroughly understood. It is obviously wise and prudent, then, to initiate our youth into the knowledge of these things, and thus to form their minds upon correct principles, and prepare them for future usefulness and honor. There is no science better adapted to the capacites of youth, and more apt to captivate their attention than Geography. An acquaintance with this science, more than with any other, satisfies that pertinent curiosity, which is the predominant feature of the youthful mind. This part of education was long neglected in America. Our young men, formerly, were much better acquainted with the geography of Europe and Asia, than with that of their own state and country. The want of suitable books was the cause of this defect in our education. Till the year 1789, when the first edition of the American Geography was published by the Author, the geography of this part of the world was unwritten and indeed but very imperfectly known to any one. Previously to this period we seldom pretended to write, and hardly to think for ourselves. We humbly received from Great-Britain our laws, our manners, our books, and our modes of thinking; and our youth were educated rather as the subjects of the British king, than as the citizens of a free and independent nation. But the scene is now changed. The revolution has proved favorable to science in general; particularly to that of the geography of our own country. In the following pages, the Author has endeavored to bring this valuable branch of knowledge home to common schools, and |