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Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicolas. Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even children may in a short time know the use of the terrestrial globe and geographical maps, and all the considerable countries in the world; their situation, boundaries, extent, divisions, islands, rivers, lakes, chief cities, government and religion. Divided into lessons, in the form of question and answer: Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The eighteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the use of such grown persons have neglected this useful study in their Youth. And a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this work.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 12732, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/12732. Accessed 2024-12-18.

@book{ wphp_12732
  author={Lenglet du Fresnoy,Nicolas},
  year={1795},
  title={Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even children may in a short time know the use of the terrestrial globe and geographical maps, and all the considerable countries in the world; their situation, boundaries, extent, divisions, islands, rivers, lakes, chief cities, government and religion. Divided into lessons, in the form of  question and answer: Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The eighteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the use of such grown persons have neglected this useful study in their Youth. And a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this work.},
  publisher={Joseph Johnson \& Elizabeth Newbery},
  address={London},    }

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