WONDERS OF NATURE AND ART, OR, A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF WHATEVER IS MOST CURIOUS AND REMARKABLE IN THE WORLD; Compiled from HISTORICAL and GEOGRAPHICAL Works of BY THE REV. THOMAS SMITH, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED, Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Corresponding Review these numerous scenes-at once survey Nature's extended face, then Sceptics say, In this wide field of wonders, can you find No art discover'd, and no end design'd? VOL. IX. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY ROBERT CARR, FOR BIRCH & SMALL: SOLD ALSO BY M. CAREY, Gift of Prof. James S. Pray, District of Pennsylvdambridge. Be it remembered, That on the twenty-first day of July, in the thirty-first Year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1806, William Young Birch and Abraham Small, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "The Wonders of Nature and Art, or, a Concise Account "of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World: Compiled from Historical and Geographical "Works of established celebrity, and illustrated with the "Discoveries of Modern Travellers. By the Rev. Thomas Smith, Author of the Universal Atlas, Sacred Mirror, &c. &c. Revised, Corrected, and Improved, by James Mease, M. D. Member of the American Phi"losophical Society, and Corresponding Member of the "Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. "Review these numerous scenes--at once survey find No art discover'd, and no end design'd?" In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned," and also, to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned. And extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving and etching, historical and other Prints." (L. S.) D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. |