Show AN ODD GEOGRAPHY Our DOJ's and Girl Girls Would Laugh LAUCh at Such Sucha a Hook Now About 1700 a geography was vas introduced introduced introduced intro intro- into the New York schools from England A Little Description of the Great World n by Peter The geographies of 01 those days are arc the tho oddest oddest oddest odd odd- est of all aU our text book relics lelies Tho The prevailing ideas ideM of Europe and anti Asia were tolerably clear but the tho most of Africa was a mysterious land stud and the tho interior of America unknown The Sahara Sahara- desert consisted of the ilia theLand theLand Land of and Bele and the tho Land of inhabited by wild heath beasts e ts and and- pagan peoples said to bo ho hospitable and friendly who vho cat eat camels camel's flesh and drank milk In Negro Land or the tho center of Africa Af At rica were people without heads who had hadey yes eyes s and m mb mouths uth in their breasts ThAing ix g resided ed at a town called Monsul where was a a. market markot for foi human human hu hu- man flesh and where a hundred slaves were vere killed daily for the for the Kings King's table Wonderful stories came camo from th the French possessions along tg th tho Mississippi M. M iF sippi where the land land- was so ho fruitful that two acres would return bushels bushels bushels bush bush- els of corn In the tho land o of ot Florida V were e fou found d goodly goody fruits and a goodly quantity of gola gold and silver ilver Emeralds were were found there ther als o. o and turquoises and pearls The Tho men inca in this county doe naturally love lovo ware waro and revenge insomuch that they are aro in with other othel continually ware ono one or N N. Y Advertiser Ad 0 |