Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ..As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at LondonIllustrated with seventy eight mapsThe 3d ed., enlTo which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digestedThe whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors . feryou; only take Notice, That therefore I have made no Scales to theMaps; forthe Diftanceof any two places taken with your CompaiTes,and applied either to theEaft or Weft-lide
Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ..As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at LondonIllustrated with seventy eight mapsThe 3d ed., enlTo which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digestedThe whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors . feryou; only take Notice, That therefore I have made no Scales to theMaps; forthe Diftanceof any two places taken with your CompaiTes,and applied either to theEaft or Weft-lide of your Map, which is theScale of Latitude, gives you the Number of Degrees that thofe twoplaces are dilbnt one from the other, which multiplied by 73, givesyou the Number of Geometrical or Italian Miles, by 6p \ for EnglijhStatute Miles, by 25 for French common Leives, by 17 | for the SpanijhMiles, by 15 for the common German^ Dutch, Venmark^, and GreatPoland Miles, by 10 for Hungarian Miles, by 12 for Suedijh Miles, by80 for the Mufcovian Verftesor Voreft, by 480 for the Greci^;; Stadia,or 450 according to Mr. Greaves, by 20 for the Perfian, Arabian, andEgyptian Parafanga, now called Farfach, by 24 for the Mogul or IndianCos, according to Sanfon, by 250 for the Chiaean Stades, by 400 for^the Ikins of Japan -, as for the Turl^t, they have no diilindiion of their ;Ways by Miles, nor Days by Hours. Of Of EVROPE, one of the four great Parts of the PPWld, is alfothe moft confiderable in reipedt of the Beauty of her King-doms and Commonrpealths, the Politenefs of her Inhabitants^the Excellent Government of her Cities ; as alfo in regardof its Excellency in hcj:Traffick^ and Commerce ^ the goodnefs of her^ir, and general Fertility. It is the lealt Part of all, yet has producedthe great Alexanders and C£fars of the Univerfe ; contains within itsBounds the principal part of the Roman and Grecian Monarchies ; and, which Of Europe, 17 which to this day furnilheth the other par
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