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MORSE, JEDEDIAH. The American Geography. 2 folding maps hand-colored in outline, folding table. xvi, 536 pages. 8vo, later polished calf gilt, minor wear; bookplate on front pastedown, Quaritch note on rear free endpaper. London, 1792
Second edition. Morse reserves his strongest language for California: "The characteristics of the Californians are stupidity and insensibility; want of knowledge and reflection . . . and a most wretched want of every thing which constitutes the real man"--page 479. Howes M840; Sabin 50924.
