ILLUSTRATED BY A VARIETY OF CUTS AND TABLES, AND
ACCOMPANIED BY A NEW AND BEAUTIFUL

ATLAS.

BY NATHANIEL G. HUNTINGTON, A. M.

HARTFORD:

R. WHITE, AND HUTCHISON & DWIER.

For sale by the Booksellers generally throughout the United States.

1835.

[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by Eleazer Huntington, and Henry Benton, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.]

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

THE Publishers, in offering to the public the present edition of this Geography, deem it proper to state, that the work has been carefully revised, and corrected and improved.

The latest Geographical information has been introduced. Especial pains have been taken to render the style and language simple and correct. The accuracy of the information which the book contains, may, they believe, from the care which has been exercised, be confidently relied on. The method of description which the author has adopted, is such as to give to what is often only dry detail, the life and interest of narrative. Thus, they trust, the book will be found to answer its "Two. fold purpose of a Correct Guide to the Student, and of a Geographical Reading Book."

The favorable indications which have come to the Publishers' notice, encourage them to believe that the work will generally be thought worthy of approbation, and meet with extensive patronage

Hartford, June, 1835.

PREFACE.

THE Science of Geography is an essential branch of elementary education, and calculated to awaken and cherish in the juvenile mind that spirit of curiosity and inquiry which, under due regulation, often leads to the noblest and happiest results. Nor is it a theme unworthy of mature minds, nor beneath the attention of men of learning and taste, nor important merely as a source of mental diversion and entertainment; on the contrary it opens a wide field for improving and profitable contemplation, is in many respects connected with the general circle of the sciences, and contributes more than is commonly supposed, to the formation of the scholar, the man of business, the patriot, and the philanthropist.

Geographical knowledge, more than any other, is in its nature progressive. The field it embraces is large, and has as yet been but superficially or partially surveyed. Of many parts of the world we are still extremely ignorant. They are yet to be explored. And as travellers and adventurers are becoming more numerous, intelligent, and faithful, new degrees of light are afforded, and fresh discoveries made, so that the subject excites a continually increasing interest.

At no period, perhaps, have studies and inquiries in this department, been more important than at the present. They have a direct bearing upon those various systems and enterprises of benevolence which mark the present age, and which call forth the wisdom and energies of great and good men. One grand reason why multitudes are found so contracted in their sentiments, sympathies, and operations, is, that their education has been very limited and defective. They have been accustomed to look only near home, or upon their own gratification, interest, or party; instead of extending their intellectual and moral vision abroad, and considering their relation to the whole human family. Many of our youth would aspire and attain to greater and nobler achievements, if their minds were, in due season, cultivated and enlarged by an acquaintance with the state of the world, and with the diversified character and condition of its inhabitants.

In order to prepare them to act on a generous scale, they should early be accustomed to take large and liberal views. Many illustrious characters, it is well known, have received in their boyhood, and often incidentally, those literary or moral impressions which have led to their subsequent celebrity and usefulness. The historian, orator, and