Old-time schools and school-books . English, A Chinese selling Rats and Puppies for pies. From Peter Parleys Geography, 1829. Bible history with appropriate comments. Thishistory, the author says, is exceedingly interest-ing, and is all true. A great part of the history ofalmost all other nations is false ; but the Bible tellsus nothing but what is worthy of belief. The Malte-Brun Geography, 1831, was also writ-ten by Peter Parley, but the materials for thebook were drawn chiefly from the large work bythe noted French geographer, whose name gives Later Geographies 357 the book its title. Selec
Old-time schools and school-books . English, A Chinese selling Rats and Puppies for pies. From Peter Parleys Geography, 1829. Bible history with appropriate comments. Thishistory, the author says, is exceedingly interest-ing, and is all true. A great part of the history ofalmost all other nations is false ; but the Bible tellsus nothing but what is worthy of belief. The Malte-Brun Geography, 1831, was also writ-ten by Peter Parley, but the materials for thebook were drawn chiefly from the large work bythe noted French geographer, whose name gives Later Geographies 357 the book its title. Selections that show somethingof the character of the bookand of the times follow: — Occasional bands of whitehunters and trappers range theMissouri Territory for of them extend theirexpeditions to the foot of theRocky mountains, and someto the shores of the herds of buffaloes that areseen in this territory sometimesamount to 10,000 each. Whenthe herd is moving, the groundtrembles, and the grumbling andbellowing
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