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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	162	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	52	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10	32	0	Browse	Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States	22	0	Browse	Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight)	20	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.	20	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers	16	0	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1865., [Electronic resource]	12	0	Browse	Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	6	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.	6	0	Browse	Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 30: our criticism of foreign visitors (search)

New York Harbor. It is as if a son who has removed far from his old home should expect his father to find his way about a newly built house in Omaha, merely because he himself remembers every nook and corner of the old house in East Belchertown. How much do we ourselves know about any part of the continent, new or old, which we have never visited? How many American citizens could draw, off-hand, a recognizable sketch-map showing the relative positions of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland? How many know whether Guatemala and Yucatan adjoin each other, and which is north or south of the other? It is safe to say not one in a thousand. Nay, how many Eastern citizens even know the relative positions on the map of Wyoming, Idaho, and Arizona, or can state without much reflection the comparative sizes of New York and Nevada? At an examination of teachers in a New England city, scarcely one could be found who knew where Cape Malabar was; some were wholly ignorant, others thou

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