Essays and addresses
He wrote a History of New England, Annals of the American Revolution and a number of biographies. His geography was well and favourably known; the work cited by the translator is not the folio Morses Geography, which many of the senescent will remember as being in common use in the schools of Upper Canada half a century ago and more (before the advent of Dr Hodgins Canadian work), but an octavo. My own edition was printed in London for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, and bears date 1792. 18 It must be remembered that till 1784, Nova Scotia included what is now called New Brunswick. Morse does not anywhere in this book recog- nize New Brunswick but treats of the whole territory as Nova Scotia (pp. prev     next
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