National characters exhibited in forty geographical poems : with plates

National characters exhibited in forty geographical poems : with plates. Dedication to ''the Right Honourable the Ladies Susan and Louisa Somerset, (Daughters of Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort)'', dated from Myrtle Cottage, Ryde, Isle of Wight, October, 1818. In verse. Includes footnotes; many referring to Guthrie's Geographical, historical, and commercial geography (1812 ed.). Publisher's advertisement: [1] p. at end. Contains The Iceland guide -- The Lapland boy -- The Norway hunter -- The Danish sailor -- The Swedish miner's wife -- The Russian youth -- The English banker -- The Scotch law student -- The Irish officer -- The Welch curate -- The Dutch labourer -- The Polish peasant -- The French cottage girl -- The German physician -- The Swiss soldier -- The Spanish mountaineer -- The Portuguese gardener -- The Italian artist -- The Turkish carpet weaver -- The Greek captain of a ship -- The wild Arabian boys -- The Persian girls -- The Indian shawl weaver -- The Tartar herdsman -- The Chinese servant boy -- The Japanese servant girl -- The Kamschatsdale fisherman -- The Greenland wife -- The Canadian widow -- The Philadelphian bookseller -- The Mexican cocoa gardener -- The Brazilian merchant -- The Otaheitian youth -- The Molucca maiden -- The Gonaqua Hottentot herdsman -- The Negro kings -- The Abyssinian child -- The Egyptian nobleman -- The Moorish pirate.