A Geography of Massachusetts
Carter, James Gordon Excerpt from A Geography of Massachusetts: For Families and SchoolsThe subject is begun precisely at the wron end. If it is addressed to the understanding of the young earner, this arrangement seems to presume, that he will take a deeper interest in, and better comprehend the general features of the world, embracing its lar est mountains and rivers, and the characters of nations, 0 whose existence he has never before heard, than of the roads, ...