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PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

To show in some degree, the estimation in which the following work is held by literary gentlemen of the first respectability in our country, the publishers think proper to state, that they have in their possession ample recommendations of the plan and execution of the work from the following persons.

Reverend Ashbel Green, D.D. President of Princeton College-Reverend Philip Lindsley, Vice President of Princeton College-Reverend Daniel Hascall, Professor in the Baptist Literary and Theological Seminary, Hamilton, New-York-Simeon De Witt, Esq. Surveyor General of the State of New-York-Rever rend Thomas C. Brownell, Bishop of ConnecticutReverend Zephaniah Swift Moore, President of the Collegiate Institution at Amherst, Mass.-Reverend Abel Flint, D. D.-Mr. James L. Kingsley, Professor of Languages in Yale College--Reverend Chuncey A. Goodrich, Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Yale College-Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, Principal of the American Asylum.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED,

A SYSTEM OF UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY;

ANCIENT AND MODERN:

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ON THE PLAN OF THE RUDIMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY." Modern Geography by WM. C. WOODBRIDGE. Ancient Geography, by EMMA WILLARD. Accompanied by an Atlas on an improved plan, embracing eight Maps, two Charts, and ten quarto

pages of Tables, Questions, &c.

The above work, designed for the use of the higher classes in Academies and Schools, comprises 454 large duodecimo pages, and by an unusual compression, embraces, (including the letter-press of the Atlas,) more than double the quantity of matter found in any other School Geography now in use. By means of this compression, the comparative expense of the book has been greatly reduced, and a complete system of Universal Geography, embracing all the subjects properly belonging to the science, has been brought within the means of every individual, and at a much less expense than heretofore.

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Highest flight of a balloon. b. The highest spot visited by man, e. Hi est now inhabited, Antisana. d. Highest limit of pines at the Equator of oaks. f. St. Peter's church at Rome. The Highlands are in New-Y Mt. Holvoke in Massachusetts. Monadnock in New-Hampshire.

OF

GEOGRAPHY,

ON A NEW PLAN.

DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE MEMORY BY

COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION;

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OF

MANNERS, CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES.

ACCOMPANIED WITH AN

ATLAS,

EXHIBITING THE

TREVAILING RELIGIONS, FORMS OF GOVERNMENT,
DEGREES OF CIVILIZATION,

AND THE COMPARATIVE SIZE OF

TOWNS, RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS

BY WILLIAM C. WOODBRIDGE, A. M.
Author of a System of Universal Geography.

SIXTH EDITION.

FROM THE THIRD IMPROVED EDITION.

10000

HARTFORD :

OLIVER D. COOKE & Co.

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