"This chart is intended to represent a large field or plantation extending 41 successive degrees of latitude, from the city of Mexico to Hudson's Bay, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, five millions of square miles, the exact latitude and longitude from Washington, specifying the temperature of its surface one foot deep, and presenting the names of nearly four hundred of the most valuable species of plants growing on the above field, indicating the day of the month in the year (perpetual,) that either of the plants bloom and yield their fruit in all the parallels of latitute." "Entered according to act of Congress, by J.C. David, at the office of clerk of United States for the southern district of New-York." Dated [184-?] by the New York Public Library copy in NUC pre-1956 and the Checklist of American imprints. Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 56.8 x 37.0 cm. AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 14177).