Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-12
ro-Dav,s Advertisements.

ssHA SPI.EaDID WoRK.-We have hastily ex
amined " Johnsons New Illustrated Township
Steel Plate Family Atlas" for which tbs
Agent, Mr. JoHN WEAN, is Isow crnvassing ii
this county. 1t is magnificent work, and
aonbfless one of the most complete, compfe
heasive and reliable publications of its kind in
existence. It's scope and character may be
inferred from the following extracts from the
prospectus:
se7.I LAND AND IT'S PHENoaEsA-C Coiitireff-
saI masses, Island masses, Mountains and val
leys, PlateaHx and table-lands Plains and low
lands, Fissures and caverns, GIassial forma-
Tons, Volcanoes Earthq ,akes, Land slides, and
gradual displacemerts, etc.
II. WATER AND IT'S pfiENoAENA-Springs
Rivers, Iases, Oceans, Oceanic movements
Aetion Of wateE apof ldtd etc.
Ill. ATMosfaER AsD IT'S PHENoMENA-
Currents III atmosphere; Atmospheric moist
dre (rain, snoa, hail, etc. Atmospl eric tenn
teratnre, Climate, fsothermal lines etc.
w. ELEcrRIcITy and IFS PPENoaFsk-
Lightning, Thunder, Magnetism, Aurora a-bore-
ais, Magnetic and Electric currents and
storms, etc.
v. PLANTs-fheir kind and dastribttion,
As1MALs-fheir kind aud disfrib4tioat. MAN
--efhnogTaphy. Accompanying which are q
humber OF finely-executed steel-plate maps,
prepared expressly to go with the treatise
The authors desire In this connection to ex-
frcss their heartfelt thanks to Lieutenant
aiAuRY. of Washington, and Messrs. MftaNrs
o IL.
ii4farnsation furnished for this part of their
&orh
The general maps in the Atlas are upon a
much larger scale than the maps in other
works Of the kind. and nearly all are upon
boUBI.E sHEETs, extending across two pages Of
che work, thereby connecting two or more
States upon the saurc sheet ard sesle. fer the
burrptaosc Of correctly showing the relative size
aud. position one State bears to the other, and
The ruutes intey and ont of, the States so con-
teetetE by stages, steamboats,. or railroads.
This is aiiaihef new G<titre peculiar to this
Atias, aud of the greatest Importance to all
Interested in internal improvements. The
Maps have been Carefully complied, drawn
and engraved under the superintendent OF
Mpxsrs j. H. Ctt.4ota ard II. !. JOHNSON
whose A!iases aud Maps have ben! fer YEARS,
and are NOW, the stal1dAtrtl works of the kind
IN America
The Maps are engraved on the very best
steel.plates. aud contain besides the usual geo
graphical outlines, the subdivision of every
State i'll the United States Into counties, aud
Che counties into townships. They show the
true Representative Of ssl the network OF igser
hhl improvements, tie Hires of public surveys
Hild y great mass of ether &tsti valunb'e inIor-
nation, nowhere TO be found in any 0tlieF Mt
las or upon any map. The Atlas is elegantly
anil very substantially bound in shot cloth and
Tartey morocco, with splendid gold stamp
6f ehc GREAT ssaf. OF TEE USYrEp STATES up
on each side of the work. The Publishers, in
presenting this Atlas to the public, do not
claim for it perfsctioa; tifoagh they DO most
emphatieally assert that it has no s9uoi III very
diany respects; aiNF 10 Superior in any = and
as to prfee, aft thinge considered, they oaA4-
AESGE competition
We most cheerfuIly ard heurtily commend
tais work TO the otte.ftion Of our readers. A
good Atlas.iis.a a necessity in every family ma
king any pfetensions to intelligence aud an
examination of this volume will not fail to estab-
Fish its claim TO superiority ever any other yet
tdblshesf.