THE AMERICAN GEOGRA A PHY; O R, A VIEW OF THE PRESENT SITUATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: CONTAINING Aftronomical Geography Geographical Definitions, Discovery, and WITH A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF KENTUCKY, THE WESTERN TERRITORY, and VERMONT. Of their TO WHICH IS ADDED, An Abridgment of the Geography of the BRITISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, and DUTCH AFRICA. BY JEDI DIA H MORS E. ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO SHEET MAPS ONE OF THE SOUTHERN, THE OTHER THIRD EDITION. 3 1 EN: PRINTED FOR JOHN JONES, NO. III, GRAFTON-STREET, OPPOSITE THE COLLEGE. M.DC.CXCII PREFACE. Shi O imperfect are all accounts of AMERICA hitherto published, even by thofe who once exclusively poffeffed the best means of information, that from them very little knowledge of this country can be acquired. Europeans have been the fole writers of American Geography, and have too often fuffered fancy to fupply the place of facts, and thus have led their readers into errors, while they profeffed to aim at removing their ignorance. But fince the United States have become an independent nation, and have rifen into Empire, it would be reproachful for them to fuffer this ignorance to continue; and the reft of the world have a right now to expect authentic information. To furnish this has been the defign of the author of the following work; but he does not pretend that this design is compleated, nor will the judicious and A 2 candid |