. American homes and gardens. Two exquisitely worked map samplers (on silk moire), from the collection of Mr-Power, New York is one which bears amap of North andCentral America. Inthis particular in-stance Americangeography sufferssome violence, dueprobably to the some-what vague and hazyknowledge of the sub-ject which prevailedin Europe in 1788when the samplerwas made. The en-tire area now occu-pied by the north-eastern states islabeled New Eng-land, though this, to be sure, maybe because owing to the small size ofthese states it was impossible to pre-sent each one. New York occupiesonly
. American homes and gardens. Two exquisitely worked map samplers (on silk moire), from the collection of Mr-Power, New York is one which bears amap of North andCentral America. Inthis particular in-stance Americangeography sufferssome violence, dueprobably to the some-what vague and hazyknowledge of the sub-ject which prevailedin Europe in 1788when the samplerwas made. The en-tire area now occu-pied by the north-eastern states islabeled New Eng-land, though this, to be sure, maybe because owing to the small size ofthese states it was impossible to pre-sent each one. New York occupiesonly the tiniest fragment upon themap and New Jersey and Delawareare quantities almost is expanded to a sizemuch greater than it ever possessed,and Virginia and the Carolinas arerepresented by long horizontal stripswhich extend from the seaboard tothe Mississippi River. Mexico, andthe greater part of Central Americaappear in what is much their presentposition, but a puzzling section justnorth of Mexico is labeled NewNavarre, and by far the greater partof the continent is inscribed un-known land. Another
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