Old-time schools and school-books . Jedidiah Morse. served as pastor of the First Church in Charles-town. He won fame not only in his own country,but was recognized abroad as a man of distinguishedattainments, and a number of his books were trans-lated into French and German. His Geography 32° Old-time Schools and School-books Made Easy, a small leather-bound i2mo of aboutfour hundred pages, was for many years by far themost popular text-book dealing with this copy, dated 1800, is dedicated TO THE Young Mafters and Miffes Throughout the United States Two maps of double-page size are
Old-time schools and school-books . Jedidiah Morse. served as pastor of the First Church in Charles-town. He won fame not only in his own country,but was recognized abroad as a man of distinguishedattainments, and a number of his books were trans-lated into French and German. His Geography 32° Old-time Schools and School-books Made Easy, a small leather-bound i2mo of aboutfour hundred pages, was for many years by far themost popular text-book dealing with this copy, dated 1800, is dedicated TO THE Young Mafters and Miffes Throughout the United States Two maps of double-page size are the only illustra-tions— one a map of the world, the other of GEOGRAPHY MADE EASY. A an edition of 1800. The earlier pages treat of the Doctrine of TheSphere, Of Aftronomical Geography, Of Globesand their Ufe, etc. But soon we come to theHijtory of the Difcovery of America, and then toa General Defcription of America. In the latterchapter is much that is interesting and picturesque. The First American Geography 321 It includes, as do all the early geographies, a goodmany imaginative travellers tales picked up fromnewspapers and other chance sources without anypains being taken to verify them or to inquire as tothe reliability of their authors. In fact, it sometimesseems as if the more fabulous the story the betterits chance to be recorded in the school get very entertaining glimpses of the limitationsof geographical knowledge at the time in the follow-ing extracts from Morse. The Andes, in South America, ftretch along the Pa-cific Ocean from the Ifthmus of Darien to the Straits ofMagellan. The height of Chimborazo, the
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