..."National Education" for Niles' Weekly Register, he assumes the position of the geoliterate citizen: I was looking at the map of NORTH COLUMBIA, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean . . . [and] contrasted the first settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth, with the present States and...

...felt obliged to give to my f¡ ¡ends an ucciiunt of the cause. I was looking at the map of Nun-ru COLUMBIA, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean....introversion of mind arising from this view of the nation,! involuntarily contrasted the first settlements at .fiuuctiown and P!yinon<ti,\v\t}\ the present States...