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Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal Geography, to which are Prefixed Elements of Geography, for the Use of Schools and Academies in the United States of America, by Jedidiah Morse, D.D., Eighteenth Edition and Sixth of This New Abridgement, Published by Thomas & Andrews, Boston, MA - Ezra Lincoln, Printer, Sept. 1816 - measures 4 1/4" x 6 3/4" - 364 pages - missing frontispiece map of the World. Contents: Preface - November, 1814 Advertisement to the Eighteenth Edition, Sept. 1816 Elements of Geography: Definitions History of Geography and Astronomy The Solar System Comets Fixed Stars Eclipses Doctrine of the Sphere The Globes Problems Maps Natural Divisions of the Earth's surface Component parts of the Earth Volcanoes Earthquakes Magnetism Gravitation Tides The Atmosphere Winds Vapors and Clouds Electricity Light The Harvest Moon Northern Light Heat and Cold Political Divisions of the Earth Inhabitants Forms of Government Religions Of the Divisions of Time Measures Of the Log Line Rain Gage America: North America - with "A Map of North America, from the latest Discoveries, 1806" - 4 1/4" x 8" Russian America Aboriginal America Greenland Labrador and Hudson Bay Interior Countries Northwest Coast Northern Archipelago British America Upper Canada Lower Canada Island of Cape Breton New Brunswick Nova-Scotia Island of St. John's Newfoundland Island The Bermudas or Sommers' Islands The United States District of Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode-Island Connecticut New-York New-Jersey Delaware Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Territory Indiana Territory Illinois Territory Maryland Columbia Territory Virginia Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Mississippi Territory Louisiana Spanish America Florida Mexico South America: Terra Firma Peru Chili Buenos Ayres Guiana Brazil Amazonia Patagonia South-American Islands West Indies: The Bahama Isles The Antilles The Virgin Isles The Caribbees Europe: Lapland Denmark Sweden Russia Poland Prussia Germany Principal States of Germany Austria Austrian Dominions Great-Britain England Wales Scotland Ireland Smaller British Isles France Netherlands Holland Switzerland Spain Portugal Italy Mediterranean Islands Turkey Islands belonging to the Turkish Empire Asia: Turkey Asiatic Russia Tartary China Thibet Hindoostan India beyond the Ganges Assam The Birman Empire Siam Malacca Laos Cambodia Cochin China Persia Arabia Japan Oriental Islands Africa: Egypt Nubia, Dar-Foor Abyssinia, and the Eastern Coast Southern and Western Coasts States of Barbary Morocco Algiers Tunis Tripoli Barca African Islands Islands of the Pacific Ocean Austral Asia Polynesia Appendix: A Series of Geographical Question