Murray's Encyclopaedia Of Geography

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY,

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A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH, PHYSICAL, STATISTICAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL.

EXHIBITING

ITS RELATION TO THE HEAVENLY BODIES, ITS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE, THE

NATURAL HISTORY OF EACH COUNTRY, AND THE INDUSTRY,

COMMERCE, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, AND CIVIL

AND SOCIAL STATE OF ALL NATIONS.

BY HUGH MURRAY, F

R.S.E., etc.

Assisted in Botany, by Professor HOOKER - Zoology, etc., by W. W. SWAINSON - Astronomy, etc. by Professor WALLACE - Geology, etc, by Professor JAMESON.

REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS,

BY THOMAS G

BRADFORD.

THE WHOLE BROUGHT UP, BY A SUPPLEMENT, TO 1843. In three large octavo volumes.

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This great work, furnished at a remarkably cheap rate, contains about Nineteen Hundred large imperial Pages, and is illustrated by Eighty-Two small Maps, and a colored Map of the United States, after Tan ner's, together with about Eleven Hundred Wood Cuts executed in the best style.

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The American Encyclopaedia

BROUGHT UP TO 1847.

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA:

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OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS AND BIOGRAPHY.

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During The Long Period Which This Work Has Been Before The Public, It Has Attained A Very High Character As An Encyclopaedia For Daily Reference

Containing, in a comparatively moderate space, a vast quantity of information which is scarcely to be met with elsewhere, and of the exact kind which is wanted in the daily exigencies of conversation and reading. It has also a recommendation shared by no other work of the kind now before the public, in being an American book. The numerous American Biographies, Accounts of American Inventions and Discoveries, References to our Political Institutions, and the general adaptation of the whole to our own peculiar habits and modes of thought, peculiarly suit it to readers in this country. From these causes, it is also especially fitted for all in some of which it has been tried with great satisfaction. It fulfils, to a greater extent than perhaps any similar work, the requirements for these institutions, presenting, in a small compass and price, the materials of a library, and furnishing a book for every-day use and reference, indispensable to those removed from the large public collections.

Some years having elapsed since the original thirteen volumes of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA were published, to bring it up to the present day, with the history of that period, at the request of numerous subscribers, the publishers have just issued a:

Supplementary Volume (The Fourteenth)

BRINGING THE WORK UP TO THE YEAR 1847

EDITED BY HENRY VETHAKE, LL.D.

Vice-Provost and Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, Author of "A Treatise on Political Economy".

In one large octavo volume of over 650 double columned pages.