Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), October 25, 1845, vol. 2, no. 16, p. ???, col. ?

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Morse's Cerographic Maps. No. 1. New-York. Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-street.

We look upon this enterprise as one of the most important, if not the most important, ever undertaken by an American publisher. The plan of the publication is as follows:

1. The size of the Maps will be about 15 inches by 12.

2. The subjeets [[subjects]] illustrated will embrace the whole field of Ancient and Modern, including Sacred Geography, Chronology, and History.

3. The work will be edited by Sidney E. Morse, A. M., and when finished, it is intended, shall be a Universal Atlas in the most comprehensive sense of the term.

4. Each number will contain four colored Maps, the price of which will be twenty-five cents, being about one-fourth the cost of copperplate Maps of a similar size.

5. More than forty Maps are already engraved, consisting chiefly of countries in North America, and embracing separate Maps of nearly every State in the Union.

6. The American Maps have been prepared with great care, and to a great extent from new and original materials, collected during the last four years by Samuel Breese, A. M., from a correspondence embracing more than 2000 letters and several hundred manuscript local maps.

7. Many thousand dollars and years of labor, having been devoted to perfecting the new art by which these maps are executed, as well as in collecting and arranging the valuable information they contain, the publishers confidently rely upon the most extended patronage for the work.

8. If practicable, from two to three numbers will be issued every month.

9. The first ten numbers will form a comprehensive and elegant North American Atlas for the Library, the Counting House and the School Room.

The Contents of No. 1 embrace the Indian Territory, NORTHERN TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, Wisconsin, Michigan and Arkansas. The price of each number is 25 cents. Nothing can exceed the beauty and accuracy of the whole work.