An abridgment of the American gazetteer. : Exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a compendious account of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the American continent, and its appendant islands; particularly the West-Indies... : To which is annexed an accurate table of all the post-offices in the United States. / By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. ; Illustrated with a map of North America. ; Abridged by the author. ; Published according to act of Congress.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826, author.

Contributor:

• Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 34143.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Geography--Dictionaries.
• Geography.
• West Indies.
• America.
• United States--Gazetteers.
• United States.
• America--Gazetteers.
• West Indies--Gazetteers.

Genre:

• Dictionaries.
• Gazetteers.
• Maps -- North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : 1 map

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston, : by Thomas and Andrews. Sold by them, by E. Larkin, and other booksellers, in Boston; by I. Thomas, Worcester; by Thomas, Andrews and Penniman, Albany; and by Thomas, Andrews and Butler, Baltimore., --June, 1798.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Printed in two columns.
• Three states of the title page noted, with variant ornaments.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 34143).

Cited in:

Evans 34143

Related Work:

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826. American gazetteer.

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