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An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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320 Old-time Schools and School-books
Made Easy, a small leather-bound i2mo of about four hundred pages, was for many years by far the most popular text-book dealing with this subject. My copy, dated 1800, is dedicated
TO THE
Young Mafters and Miffes
Throughout the United States
Two maps of double-page size are the only illustra­tions— one a map of the world, the other of North America.
A Heading. From an edition of 1800-
The earlier pages treat of the " Doctrine of The Sphere, Of Aftronomical Geography, Of Globes and their Ufe," etc. But soon we come to the Hiftory of the Difcovery of America, and then to a General Description of America." In the latter chapter is much that is interesting and picturesque.
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