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 . asfatal to the Spaniards by many Shipwracks of their rich laden f lateShips ^ as kind to iomt Englijh Undertakers of late years, who, byDiving get up vaft quantities of that Pia
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 . asfatal to the Spaniards by many Shipwracks of their rich laden f lateShips ^ as kind to iomt Englijh Undertakers of late years, who, byDiving get up vaft quantities of that Piate,which for many years havelaid clofe huggd in her rocky and precipitous embraces. Binimy hardlyacceffible, is faid to have a Fountain that renews Youth, being ftoredwith handfome Women, for whofefake it is much reforted to- Guanahani is that liland, which was difcovered by Columbus^ for which rea-fon he called it St. Salvador., in regard it faved him from the Con-fpiracy of his Men, who a little before would have thrown him overboard. New Providence^2L late ereded Colony of the EngUjh^y Patent fromhis Majefty to the Proprietors of Carolina, and is found to produce thefame Commodities, Fruits, Plants, Beafts, Fowls, Birds,(^r. Of an Airhealthful and agreeable to Englijh Bodies, that, fince their Settlement,few or none have died of theDiftempers or Difeafes incident to otherColon ieso THE <,l6 Of Neiv SPAIN,. a. c-diiaxnet-lan. iXalicco af ar a.^.31 e cli o ac aix $ocoiinico1. ChiapaiTiVefa. , -; S* THE IfiMdHs call this Country Mexico j the SpanUrd^^ New Spain-^^the Latins, iVot;^ Hifpania j a Country abundantly enriched withinexhauRible Mines of Gold and Silver, the Air exceeding Temperatethough feared in the Torrid Zone: Its Soil is fo fertile, that no Coun-try in the World feeds fo much Cattel. The Riches of the Country, befldes their Gold and Silver, Copperand Iron, are their G
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