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 . China aNenj obertJfftn-den, ).^ HlkUlllll IIUI1M,H ?Jl.»illli,» -UlMklil LfflBE CUina has been called by as many Names as there have been RoyalFamilies in i
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 . China aNenj obertJfftn-den, ).^ HlkUlllll IIUI1M,H ?Jl.»illli,» -UlMklil LfflBE CUina has been called by as many Names as there have been RoyalFamilies in it, but always accounted one of themoftconHde-rable Countries in the World, by reafon of its Largenefs, the Beauty of Of chin A. 4^7 of ifs Cities, their Number, and the politenefs of the liihabltanf s. Itis alfo reputed, that Printing, the Silk Manufa(5iures, Artillery, Pow-der , are more in ufe there than in Emop, Eelides all things necefiTi-ry for human fublilknce and delight, it produces the niofi preciousMerchandizes of the E^J?; and Nature feems to have befiowed uponevery one of its Provinces fomething of particular EileemT^nd fomethat have lived there affirm, that vv^hatever is found difpersdNin thereft of the World, is there to be met with in one heap together;and fome things that no part of the reft of the World af-fords. China Jies ir> a kaad of a Square, and is fo populous, that there havebeen
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