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 . he four andfiftieth Southerly, and is now by Geographers divided into thefe King-doms or Parts, CaftelU delOr, by (bmc C^WqA Terra Firma^ Gui-ana-f The j^mazcnSy PerHy Chi
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 . he four andfiftieth Southerly, and is now by Geographers divided into thefe King-doms or Parts, CaftelU delOr, by (bmc C^WqA Terra Firma^ Gui-ana-f The j^mazcnSy PerHy Chili, Brajfily Paraguay, or La Plata, and TerraMagellanica. Its form approaches near a Triangle, whoie fides are almoft equal. [ts fituation is for the moft part under the Torrid Zoue, the reft un-der the Antartick temperate Zone, The Coafts of this part of the World are in part known to us, butthe Inlands very little. And here I mufl beg pardon for my digreflion, from the afual Orderand Method of Geographers, for being neceflarily obligd to waitupon fome of our iVorth American Proprietors, for a more exad De-fcription than what is generally extant: And the haftc of the Prefspreffing me for more Work, I was forced to take this Courfe to begin atthe mofb Southern part oi America-^ and to proceed to the more iVbr-therly, and fo finilh this Circle ofGeography. Gome we therefore to A a a a . Magellanic a ^yl AgelUnica ties upon the South of America^ near the Streight ofi VJL M^gellm^ whofe Name it (till retains, though fometimes caird:the Country of the Tatagons. It is a very poor Country, and fubjeft tocold, by reafon of the high Mountains, where the Snow lies almoltall the year. As for the Natives, they live in Caves, and adore thtDevily that he may do them no harm. The Spaniards^ Englijh andDutch, have given various Names to the places where they have the nrit partoftheReignofKingP/ji//^ the Second, the Spaniardsbuilt Cividaddel Key FhUiffe^diTA feveral other
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