A New Gazetteer, Or, Geographical Dictionary of North America and the West Indies: Containing I, a General Description of North America: II, a General

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Title: A new gazetteer, or, Geographical dictionary of North America and the West Indies: containing I, A general description of North America: II, A general description of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States: III, A description of all the states, counties, cities, towns, villages, forts, seas, harbors, capes, rivers, lakes, canals, rail-roads, mountains, &c. connected with North America, with the extent, boundaries and natural productions of each state, the bearing and distance of remarkable places from each other and of each from the city of Washington, with the population according to the census of 1830: containing likewise many tables relating to the commerce, population, revenue, debt, and various institutions of the United States.Author: Bishop DavenportPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04381000CollectionID: CTRG03-B518PublicationDate: 18320101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Includes study questions at the end of some chapters.Collation: 471 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates: ill., maps; 23 cm