ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

GEOGRAPHY:

COMPRISING A

COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH,

PHYSICAL, STATISTICAL, CIVIL, AND POLITICAL;

EXHIBITING ITS RELATION TO THE HEAVENLY BODIES,

ITS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE,

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EACH COUNTRY,

AND THE INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS,
AND CIVIL AND SOCIAL STATE

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ALL NATIONS.

BY HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E.

ASSISTED IN

ASTRONOMY, &c. BY PROF. WALLACE, | BOTANY, &c. BY PROFESSOR HOOKER.
GEOLOGY, &c. BY PROF. JAMESON, ZOOLOGY, &c. BY W. SWAINSON, ESQ.

ILLUSTRATED BY EIGHTY-TWO MAPS,

AND ABOUT ELEVEN HUNDRED OTHER ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD,
REPRESENTING THE MOST REMARKABLE OFJECTS OF NATURE AND ART
IN EVERY REGION OF THE GLOBE*%

TOGETHER WITH A

NEW MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.

REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS,

BY THOMAS G. BRADFORD.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

`VOL. III.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY, LEA, AND BLANCHARD.

1837.

Entered according to the act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, by

CAREY, LEA, AND BLANCHARD,

In the clerk's office of the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

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