350 Geography/. 



Besides the travellers who, with laudable enter-* 

 prise, have done much toward exploring such 

 parts of our country as were, a few years ago, 

 wholly unknown, we are indebted to many other 

 gentlemen for various publications, which have 

 served greatly to improve American geography. 

 The Geographical Essays of Lewis Evans, pub- 

 lished in 1755, together with the maps accompa- 

 nying them, formed an important step in the pro- 

 gress of our knowledge of that part of America of 

 which he treated. The geography of Virginia has 

 been well illustrated by Mr. Jefferson; of Ke?i' 

 tiicki/, by Mr. Imlay; of New- Hampshire y by Dr. 

 Belknap; of Vermont, by Dr. Williams; and 

 of the T>\six\ci of Maine, by Mr. Sullivan. But 

 the most full and satisfactory work on American 

 geography, hitherto given to the public, is that by 

 the Rev. Dr. Morse, whose talents, zeal, and in- 

 dustry, in collecting and digesting a large amount 

 of information on this subject, are well known, 

 both in Europe and America, and have been very 

 honourably rewarded by public patronage. 



The geography of South- America, though far 

 from being so fully and accurately understood as 

 could be w^ished, has yet been much investigated 

 and made known during the last age. At an early 

 period of the century Don Ulloa, who was be- 

 fore mentioned, visited and spent much time in 

 Peru, Chili, the kingdom of New-Granada, and 

 several of the provinces bordering on the Mexican 

 Gulph. At the same period, and in the same part 

 of the New World, Messrs. Condamine, Godin, 

 and BouGUER, travelled for several years, and com- 

 municated to the public a great variety, and a 

 very valuable amount of information respecting 



Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, escept at so high a latitude as to be rendere4 

 wholly impracticable by perpetual ice. This long contested question vfill 

 probably be considered henceforth as fettled. 



