Excerpt from The American Universal Geography, or a View of the Present of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the United States of America in Particular, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a New Edition of the American Geography, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged The Science of Geography, like many other Sciences, is not ita tionary. So rapid are the improvements made in it by travellers and navigators - (o fafi do alterations and revolutions fucceed each other, that it is not an ealy matter for a Geographer to keep pace with them. What is this year a geographical truth, may the next year be a geographical error, and require correblzion. The afion. Ifhing progrefs of things in the United States hnoc the year 1789, will readily fuggefl to the reader the reafon of the many alterations aind additions in this Second Edition of the American Geography, as contained in the Pirfl Part of the following work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.