. A system of geography; or, A new & accurate description of the earth in all its empires, kingdoms and states. Illustrated with history and topography, and maps of every country ... e Lagos. Tavira. Tavira, is a Town on the Sea Coaft, 20Miles Eaft from the mouth of the River Guadiana^ -about 60 Miles Weft from Cape St. Vincent, and isby fome Authors taken for the ancient Balfa, men-tiond by Ptolomy and Pomponius ? but others thinkthat that old Name belongs rather to Albuferra,which lies on the Coaft, between Lagos to the Weft,and Faro to the Eaft; about 15 Miles from either;50 from Beja, to t
. A system of geography; or, A new & accurate description of the earth in all its empires, kingdoms and states. Illustrated with history and topography, and maps of every country ... e Lagos. Tavira. Tavira, is a Town on the Sea Coaft, 20Miles Eaft from the mouth of the River Guadiana^ -about 60 Miles Weft from Cape St. Vincent, and isby fome Authors taken for the ancient Balfa, men-tiond by Ptolomy and Pomponius ? but others thinkthat that old Name belongs rather to Albuferra,which lies on the Coaft, between Lagos to the Weft,and Faro to the Eaft; about 15 Miles from either;50 from Beja, to the South; and 30 from Cabo deS. Vincent to the Eaft. Faro, Pharus, ftands on the Bay of Caat near theCabo de S. Maria, 27 Miles from Tavira to theWeft, and about 40 from Cabo de S. Vincent to theEaft. It has the advantage of a good Harbour,and has been an Epifcopal See, under the Archbi-fiiop of Euora, fince the Year 1590. S C AN D I- 329 SCANDINAVIA. COMPREHENDING Norway, Sueden, and part of Denmark im m-Mi^mil m ha Mir^J um m„ ta m, iijii liu. .m ??? bin ?? ful^mi „ Vm — 4* ?? ThX KFORtHKRT^f, S^aL O CI. AX -S^-»^i^ ?? »m MI^ m »-. SCANDINAVIA, which ?//«; falfly calls7»/z//^ incomperta Magnitudinis, an Ifland ,whofe Bounds were unknown; and which ac-cording to Diodorus and Ptolomy, was anciently calldBalthea and Bnfilea, (the latter perhaps being but acorruption of the former} comprehended all that vaftTra<5t of Land, in form almoft of a Peninfula, whichis now calld Suedcn and Norway. It is the utmoftBounds of Europe, towards the North, and is Bound-ed with Denmark, and Germany on the South, withthe Ocean on the North and Weft, and Ruffia on theEaft, and lies between the 56th and yid. Degree ofLatitude, and 25th «nd 60th of Longitude. Its Soil according to Andrew Biireus, and others,in the South parts of it, where the elevation of thePole is not above 60 Degrees is abundantly Fruit-ful, and the Air pretty Temperate : But about themiddle between
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