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Title: Travels in North America, From Modern Writers
With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View
of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the
Globe

Author: William Bingley

Release Date: March 13, 2009 [EBook #28323]

Language: English

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TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA,

FROM

MODERN WRITERS.

[Illustration:

_Frontispiece._ _Plate 1._

WASHINGTON.

PYRAMID OF CHOLULA.

NEW YORK.]

_Pub^d. by Harvey & Darton,_

_Jan^y. 1, 1823._

TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA,

FROM

Modern Writers.

WITH

REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS;

EXHIBITING A CONNECTED VIEW OF

THE GEOGRAPHY AND PRESENT STATE

OF THAT

QUARTER OF THE GLOBE.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM BINGLEY, M. A. F. L. S.

_Late of Peter-house, Cambridge, and Author of Animal Biography, &c._

[Illustration]

DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.

1821.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In the preparation of this, and of the preceding volumes, of Travels in
the South of Europe, in South America, and in Africa; as well as in the
Biographical Conversations on Celebrated Voyagers and Travellers, it has
been the design of the author, by a detail of anecdotes of extraordinary
adventures, connected by illustrative remarks and observations, to
allure young persons to a study of geography, and to the attainment of a
knowledge of the character, habits, customs, and productions of foreign
nations. The whole is supposed to be related in a series of daily
instructions, from a parent to his children.

The "Biographical Conversations on Celebrated Travellers," contain a
further account of the United States and of Cana