The monitor's instructor, or, A system of practical geography, of the United States of America, in particular: [electronic resource] : also, containing, I. Several useful geographical definitions and problems. II. The ground divisions of the earth into land and water, continents and islands. III. The local situation of empires, kingdoms, &c. IV. The rivers, cities, productions, natural curiosities, &c. of the United States, in verse. V. Geographical catechisms of the United States. For the British and Spanish possessions in North America, and thet West India Islands. VI. A short geographical catechism for the different nations beyond the sea. : The whole rendered familiar for the use of schools.

Author/Creator:

Iddings, James, 1759-1811.

Publication:

Wilmington [Del.]: : Printed by William Black., January, 1804.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6529.

Format/Description:

Book
vi, [1], 8-323, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Subjects:

Geography.
United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Geography.
United States -- Juvenile poetry.

Form/Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1804.
Textbooks.
Poems -- 1804.

Place of Publication:

United States Delaware Wilmington.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Notes:

"This work has been constructed, in a great measure, to coincide with Carey's general atlas ... a free use has been made of Guthrie's improved geography ..."--Introduction, p. [iii]-vi, signed: James Iddings. Duck-Creek, 12th mo. 7th, 1803.
"The rivers, cities, productions, natural curiosities, &c. of the United States, in verse."--p. 41-213. Includes descriptions of individual states.
Table of contents, p. [321]-323.
Errata, p. [324].
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6529).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 6529. Connect to full text.
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/333449

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