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 . Paradife^ by reafon of its fertility andftoreof Gold, a Country deftitute of Rivers, the v/ant whereof isfupplied by a great Lake, which Ebbs and Flov\^s like the 5ea j uponits-
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 . Paradife^ by reafon of its fertility andftoreof Gold, a Country deftitute of Rivers, the v/ant whereof isfupplied by a great Lake, which Ebbs and Flov\^s like the 5ea j uponits- Banks are leated many pleafant Cities and Villages, the chief isLeon near nnroa f-^nlcano of Fire, where a Fryer, feeking for Treafure,met with the end of his defign, and of his Life, the Refidence ofthe Governour, and Seat of a Biiliop. Grenada beautified with afair Church and Caftle. Jaen Segovia-, and ^ealeo- near Mar del Zur. Th^City Granada is cne of the richeft places in the India %. The paffage of the Lake Granada^ or Nicaragua., called El Defa-?gHadero is very dangerous. Coffarica^ -au^ f^eragna, are the two moil EaUern Provinces of the Audience of Gi^atimaia-, in thefirft, are the Cities of Carthage^ feated between the tv\o Seas, In the other. La Conception.^ La Trinadad^ and SanBaFe^ being the place where the 5p^«i^r^j melt, refinej and call; their Gold into Bars and Ingots. Weft Of Nm MEXJGO. 585. Eft of Floriddy and North of iVmSp^w,.there are numerous In-habitants, and various Provinces and Countries little knownby the Enroyeans^ which I call in general New Mexico ^ others compre-hend them under the name of New Granad^.^ however there have beenobferved divers people very different in their Languages, Manners andCuftoms, forne having fixed and fettled Habitations, others wandringafter their Flocks, fome dwelling in Cities or Towns, others in Herdsor Troops like the Tartars This Country was firft made known to theSpaniards by the Travels of Fryer Marco de A///^,inf
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