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Murray's Encyclopœdia of Geography,

BROUGHT UP TO 1842.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION.

THE
ENCYCLOPæDIA OF GEOGRAPHY:

COMPRISING
A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH,
PHYSICAL, STATISTICAL, COMMERCIAL, 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 OF ALL NATIONS;

BY HUGH MURRAY F.R.S.E.

ASSISTED IN

ASTRONOMY, &c. BY PROF. WALLACE,

GEOLOGY, &c. BY PROF. JAMESON.

BOTANY, &c. BY PROF. HOOKER,

ZOOLOGY, &c. BY W. SWAINSON.

ILLUSTRATED BY EIGHTY-TWO MAPS,
And about Eleven Hundred other Engravings on Wood
Representing the most remarkable objects of Nature and Art in every region of the Globe;
TOGETHER WITH
A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES,
Drawn by Drayton, from Tanner's Map, and Engraved on Copper, in which is embodied the
latest information relating to the Internal Improvements of this country.

REVISED, CORRECTED,
AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT PERIOD,
AND THE PORTION RELATING TO THE UNITED STATES WRITTEN ANEW,
BY T. G. BRADFORD,

In Three handsome Royal Octavo Volumes, various bindings.

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