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, and other islands appendant to the continent, and those newly discovered in the Pacific Ocean ... with a particular description of the Georgia western territory ... / collected and compiled by, and under the direction of Jedidiah Morse.

Date:: 1798

Credit: 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, and other islands appendant to the continent, and those newly discovered in the Pacific Ocean ... with a particular description of the Georgia western territory ... / collected and compiled by, and under the direction of Jedidiah Morse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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pontrlbuted to increafe the value of this Work, furnifhes eorrefl in*, formation concerning the Pofl-towns throughout the United States, Longitude is reckoned uniformly from the mepdian ot London pr Greenwich, except where the reader has notice to the contrary. The different lpelling of the lame names, especially thole of Indian derivation, among Authors and Map-makers, has occa- iloned no final 1 difficulty to the Author. In many initances, the different fpellings have been given; in others, the fpelling has been left equivocal, the fame word being ipelt differently in different places. The civil divifions of the United States are not uniform in all the Hates. The five New-England Hates, and New-York, New* Jerley, and Pennfylvania, are lubdivided into counties and town- ships ; and molt of the townfhips in New-England are lubdivided into pay]flies and precincts. Parljh is an ecclejiajiical divifion. The Hates South of Pennfylvania are divided generally only into coun- ties. The Lower Country, in S. Carolina, retains its original divifion intoparijhes, which are diflricts anfwering, in many refpedts, to counties in other ftates. A town, in the Southern Hates, does not neceffarily imply an incorporated diflrict, as in the northern Hates ; any number of compact houfes, few or many, is there denominated a town. Town and toivnjhip, in New-England and 'New-York, are generally uled as of fynonvmous fignification, and are all incorporated by law'. Any Cape, Fort, Point, Lake, Bay, be. pr any place that has New, Eajt, JVeJi, North, or South, prefixed to it, if not found un- der thefe general terms, is to be lought for under its diflinHive jramc; as Fort Schuyler, for inflance, look for Schuyler, Fort, be. The article Georqia Western Terp.itory, with what is annexed to it at the end of the Work, compiled with great labour and care, and with a flriff regard to truth and impartiality, will, no doubt, be interefling to ail who are, or may be concerned in the late purchafe of a confiderable portion of it. The excel- lency of the foil and climate of this country, its advantageous Situation for agriculture and commerce, and the rapidity with which it will probablv be fettled, render it a fit objeft of public attention, and veiy important as a frontier, in an expofed part of the United States. Its fettlement, upon regular and proper efla- blifhments, by a people friendly to the rights and interefls of the Indians, and under the government of the United States, would, at this time, be of immenfe utility to the union and profperity of the Hates. As the plan of this Work embraces the Spanifh and French dominions in South America and the Well-Indies, fume Spanilh and French names and terms arc made ufe of, which require, to. an Englifh reader, fomc explanation ; the few following are an- nexed : Aixo or Aixos, a general term for Flats or Shallows, on the north coaH of South America. Anfet a Cove. Barcadercs,

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