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 . ving waterd the Plains,fall into the great River oifla-ta. The Inhabitants aredocible,loversofpeace rather than War : Sothat the Spanifn Captain,that fubdud them had no great ne
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 . ving waterd the Plains,fall into the great River oifla-ta. The Inhabitants aredocible,loversofpeace rather than War : Sothat the Spanifn Captain,that fubdud them had no great need of anyconfiderabie force for that purpofc. They have many Cities, wherethey live under the Jurifdi/?/V?« humor: For theylive in Huts, that move upon Wheels, and have always made great re-fiftanceagainft t\[t^^ Trapalandes^ th^ Juriestund Diaquitesare the moft famous. Brafile Of BRAS LL £. P^^^ J*ro^^;4 ^ ? iiMn»i_ ^ iiiu p inii! ?mUffli - ^liwr ^V. BRaftle v/as called the Country of ths Holy Crofs^ when it was firftdifcovered, which was in the year i5;oi. in the name of the Kingoi Portugal^ it extends it felf all along upon the iVbrth 5ea, toward theiVorth and Eaft, with great Rocks near the Ihore under Water j thediftances between which make federal good Ports: The bounds thereoftowards the Weft are not known: The Southern bounds are variouflyplaced, according to the Wills oiPortHgals and the Spaniards-^ for boththe one and the other interpret,according to their own fenle,the Regu-lation that was made in the year 1493. and both claim the pofleflionof the River of PUta, and the Molucca Iflands, making to that effed B b b b Geographical 554 ^/ i> ti Arragonr,an d Jf^bel Queen oiCaftile his Wife, in all the Lands to the Wef
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