A Tour Through Upper and Lower Canada. by a Citizen of the United States. Containing, a View of the Present State of Religion, Learning, Commerce, Agriculture, Colonization
A Tour Through Upper and Lower Canada. by a Citizen of the United States. Containing, a View of the Present State of Religion, Learning, Commerce, Agriculture, Colonization
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries ...
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W002524 The Wilmington, 1800 edition names John Cosens Ogden as author. Thomas Collier is the only printer of record at Litchfield in 1799. "A letter from a gentleman to his friend, descriptive of the different settlements, in the province of Upper Canada."--p. [91]-119, dated New York, 20th Nov. 1794. "The valuable information contained in the following letter, and the very respectable character of the author, lead the writer of the Tour, to subjoin this also, that the volume may be more useful to the public."--p. [92]. First published separately at Philadelphia in 1795, with title: A letter from a gentleman to his friend, in England, descriptive of the different settlements in the province of Upper Canada (Evans 29236). [Litchfield, Conn.]: Printed [by Thomas Collier] at Litchfield, (according to act of Congress), 1799. 119, [1]p.; 12???
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