Stereotype Edition.

ΑΝ

EPITOME

OF

GEOGRAPHY,

With an Atlas.

BY J. E. WORCESTER.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY HILLIARD, GRAY & CO.

1838.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-eighth day of September, A. D. 1826 In the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, J. E Worcester, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"An Epitome of Geography, with an Atlas. By J. E. Worcester."

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engrav ing, and etching historical and other prints."

JNO. W. DAVIS,

PREFACE.

GEOGRAPHY is a branch of knowledge so eminently useful, that it ought to form a part of the education of all young persons of both sexes, and of every condition in life; it is also a study that may be advantageously commenced at a very early age.

The work entitled Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern, by the author of this Epitome, is adapted to the use of academies and the higher schools, and to pupils somewhat advanced in their education; and it has accordingly been adopted by several colleges among the books which are required to be studied before entering on a collegiate course.

The object of the author, in preparing this Epitome, has been to furnish a manual adapted to the use of pupils of an early age, who may afterwards study the larger work, and also to a numerous class of young persons of both sexes, whose means of education are too limited to admit of their studying thoroughly, while at school, a more extended treatise.

The Book, though small, is comprehensive in its design, and, in connexion with the Atlas, it will be found to contain a great mass of interesting and important geographical information.