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Title: The American gazetteer : exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns ... on the American continent, also of the West-India islands ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western Territory
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL) Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner
Subjects: Geography America -- Gazetteers Amérique -- Répertoires géographiques United States -- Gazetteers Georgia -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, and sold by E. Larkin, and the other booksellers in Boston by Gaine & Ten Eyck, and S. Campbell, New-York M. Carey, and W. Young, Philadelphia by Messrs. Websters, and Thomas, Andrews & Pennyman, Albany and Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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