Youth's first step in geography, being a series of exercises making the tour of the habitable globe. For the use of schools. By Susannah Rowson, preceptress. This little book is not meant to supersede any other, but merely to prepare the pupil for the study of a more comprehensive system, and to render the acquirement of the first rudiments of the science pleasant and easy to both the pupil and the instructer. The exercises can be studied by any globe, or atlas; and as there are so many excellent atlases in circulation, it was not thought necessary to increase the price of the present work, by having one to accompany it.

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Title Youth's first step in geography, being a series of exercises making the tour of the habitable globe. For the use of schools. By Susannah Rowson, preceptress. This little book is not meant to supersede any other, but merely to prepare the pupil for the study of a more comprehensive system, and to render the acquirement of the first rudiments of the science pleasant and easy to both the pupil and the instructer. The exercises can be studied by any globe, or atlas; and as there are so many excellent atlases in circulation, it was not thought necessary to increase the price of the present work, by having one to accompany it.
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Signed Author By Susannah Rowson, preceptress.
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Date of Publication 1818
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Date of First Publication 1818
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Copyright Statement District of Massachusetts, to wit: District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the thirteenth day of February, A.D. 1818, and in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Susannah Rowson, of the said District, has deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof she claims as Authoress in the words following, to wit:—Youth's first Step in Geography, being a Series of Excercises, making the Preceptress. This little book is not meant to supersede any other, but merely to prepare the pupil for the study of a more comprehensive system, and to render the acquirement of the first rudiments of the science pleasant and easy to both the pupil and instructor. The exercises can be studied by any globe, or Atlas; and as there are so many excellent Atlases in circulation, it was not thought necessary to increase the price of the present work, by having one to accompany it. In conformity to the act of the Congress of United States, 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 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." JNO. W. Davis, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
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Notes AAS Notes: "The method recommended for instructing, by these exercises, is, that the pupils read a portion of them, twice a week, in classes; the instructer reading the questions, and the pupils having their maps before them. In the mean time the pupils may ... be committing the exercises to memory ..."--To instructers, p. [3].
Copyright Feb. 13, 1818 by Susannah Rowson.
"Wells & Lilly, booksellers, no. 97, Court-Street--Boston. Keep constantly on hand a general assortment of school books ..."--advertisement, p. [179-180].
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Rowson, Susanna. Youth's first step in geography, being a series of exercises making the tour of the habitable globe. For the use of schools. By Susannah Rowson, preceptress. This little book is not meant to supersede any other, but merely to prepare the pupil for the study of a more comprehensive system, and to render the acquirement of the first rudiments of the science pleasant and easy to both the pupil and the instructer. The exercises can be studied by any globe, or atlas; and as there are so many excellent atlases in circulation, it was not thought necessary to increase the price of the present work, by having one to accompany it.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 19449, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/19449. Accessed 2024-04-26. 

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