A NEW

UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER,

CONTAINING

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL

NATIONS, EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, PROVINCES, CITIES, TOWNS, FORTS, SEAS, HARBOURS, RIVERS
LAKES CANALS. MOUNTAINS, VOLCANOES, CAPES, CAVERNS, CATARACTS AND GROTTOES

OF THE

KNOWN WORLD,

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE

EXTENT, BOUNDARIES AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF EACH COUNTRY; THE GOVERNMENT, CUSTOMS
MANNERS AND RELIGION OF THE INHABITANTS ; THE TRADE, MANUFACTURES, AND CURIOSITIES,
OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS, WITH THEIR LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE, BEARING AND DIS-
TANCE IN ENGLISH MILES FROM REMARKABLE PLACES ; AND THE VARIOUS HIS-
TORICAL EVENTS BY WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN DISTINGUISHED.

ORIGINALLY COMPILED

BY R. BROOKES, M. D.

THE WHOLE RE-MODELLED AND THE HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT BROUGHT
DOWN TO THE PRESENT PERIOD,

Bx JOHN MARSHALL, ESQ.

ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR, INCLUDING THE POPULATION OF THE UNITES
STATES.    A    DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS INDIAN TRIBES IN NORTH AMERICA;

AND CONTAINING A

BRIEF DICTIONARY OF COMMERCE,

GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF

ALL THE MONEYS IN THE KNOWN WORLD,

AND ALL THE MINERALS, VEGETABLES, ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISHES, AND INSECTS, THAT ARR
IMPORTANT TO COMMERCE ; ALL THE CHIEF COMMERCIAL AND MONIED INSTI-
TUTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS ; AND NOTICES OF MANUFACTURES
AND COMMERCE IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND COUNTRIES
THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE.

BOSTON:

,PUBLISHED BY PHILLIPS & SAMPSON.

1850.

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