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 . o Strangers. Thevenot tcWs us. That the Ufurpers were but Tiiree, zvt,. of F/-Ztiapor^ of Bifnagar^ or Carnates^ formerly called Narfwga, and Gol-conda. Thus thefe Kings claftii
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 . o Strangers. Thevenot tcWs us. That the Ufurpers were but Tiiree, zvt,. of F/-Ztiapor^ of Bifnagar^ or Carnates^ formerly called Narfwga, and Gol-conda. Thus thefe Kings claftiing together, the Kings of Vifmpor andGolconda warred upon the King of Btfnagar, and feized upon feveralof hisTowns^ fo that he was conftrained to flie into the Mountains,and that his chief Town was Velour, The. 430 The VtninfuU on this fide Ga?3ges, The Winter begins at Golconda in Jme with Rain and Thunder jthe Air was little cold at Night and in the Morning ; and in Februarythe great Heats begin ; Vines are plentiful there, and the Grapes areripe in Jaimary. They have two Crops a Year of Kke, and manyother Grains. Some Relations make met-tion of the Nairjues of Madure ^ theHdurd Ptol. MundirU Jlrriano. Modufa Tlin. Tanaior and Gingi^ theOrthura Ptol. tefle Baud. Orijfa Ca(ial. of the Kingdom of M<Jfur, ijCXtto that o( Mjdure^ but give us little of Remark with certainty. Of Gf the PeninfukBeyond GANGES. 451. THis Country in the elder Times was fo renowned for Wealth,that one Trad of it had the Name of the Region theother of th^.GoldenCberfomfn yet> in truth, the Country ,t fdf was 4J2 Of the PemfffuU beyond Ganges, but little known in the Times of the Ancients, or the Interior part 6fIt to us 111 thefe days. Our lateft Difcoveries tell us, tis difmembredand (ubdivided into alnioft as many Kingdoms and Eftates as Cities andlowns, and mto as many diAind Governments as there are Tribesand Nations among them ; the chief Cities of which are fegu, 7ridip-ton, or Jrigliph
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