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America - Gazetteers - Early works to 1800
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The gazetteer's or, newsman's interpreter. The second part. Being a geographical index of all the empires, Kingdoms, Islands, Provinces, Peninsula's: As also. Of the Cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Asia, Africa, and America. Shewing The Division and Boundary of every Country, to whom now subject: The Situation of the several Cities and Places contain'd therein, in respect to Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, and the like: Their Distances from others of most Note, and what is most memorable concerning them, with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best Authorities, and latest Observations. To which is added: An Account of the Imperial, Royal, and Princely Families of these three Parts of the World. The whole of special Use for the true understanding of Modern History, and the state of Affairs in those parts of the World, and explain'd by Abbreviations and Figures for the Conveniency of the Pocket.
Date: 1707- Books
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The American gazetteer, exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the American continent, also of the West-India Islands ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western Territory ... The whole comprising upwards of seven thousand distinct articles. Collected and compiled from the best authorities, and arranged with great care, by, and under the direction of, Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Masssachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with seven new and neat maps. Published according to act of Congress.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: 1797- Books
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The gazetteer's or newsman's interpreter. The second part. Being a geographical index of all the empires, kingdoms, Islands, Provinces, Peninsula's: As also, Of the Cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Asia, Africa and America. Shewing the division and boundary of every country, to whom now subject: The Situation of the several Cities and Places contain'd therein, in respect to Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, and the like: Their Distances from others of most Note, and what is most memorable concerning them, with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best Authorities, and latest Observations. To which is added: An Account of the Imperial, Royal, and Princely Families of these three Parts of the World. The whole of special Use for the true understanding of Modern History, and the state of Affairs in those parts of the World, and explain'd by Abbreviations and Figures for the Conveniency of the Pocket.
Date: 1704- Books
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The gazetteer's, or, newsman's interpreter. Being a geographical index of all the empires, kingdoms, Islands, Provinces, Peninsula's: As also, Of the Cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Asia, Africa, and America. Shewing, the division and boundary of every country, to whom now subject: The Situation of the several Cities and Places contained therein, in respect to Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, and the like: Their Distances from others of most Note, with what is most memorable concerning them, with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best Authorities, and latest Observations. To which is added, An Account of the Imperial, Royal, and Princely Families of these three Parts of the World. The second part. The Whole of special Use for the true Understanding of all Modern History, and the State of Affairs in those Parts of the World, and explained by Abbreviations and Figures, for the Conveniency of the Pocket.
Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]