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 . \ Oppofite to Cape Blanco., and the utmoll North parts of Americalies the fuppofcd Kingdom of Aman^ from whence the Straits of Anian., which are by fome thought to part Afia and
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 . \ Oppofite to Cape Blanco., and the utmoll North parts of Americalies the fuppofcd Kingdom of Aman^ from whence the Straits of Anian., which are by fome thought to part Afia and America, do de-five their name. The Riches of Q^uiviria confift in their Oxen, who^fc Flelh is theordinary Food of the Inhabitants, their Skins fervethem for cloath-ing, their Hair for Thred, of their Nerves and Sinews they makeCotds and Bow-ftrings •, of their Bones they make Nails and Bod-kins j of their Horns Trumpets i of their Bladders Veflels to keepWater in, and their Dung when dried ferves for Fire. In Cibola-, Granada., Acoma-, and fome other Places,the Natives live^in Frotrefles upon the Mountains with Palifadocs and Moats, callingtheir Villages by the names of their Cacicks, which laft no longerthan their Lives, therefore to us uncertain. The River of Nort, which in all other Maps is made to fall intoMar del f^ermejo-, or Mar del California., falls with three Mouths intorhe Mexican Gulph. Florida,. Flflrjrt4 was firft dilcovered by the Jt^^/^/^, under the (Jonducr-rjrStbajiian Cabot^ 1479. Afterwards, farther fearched into byfohn Defofiy a Spaniard^ who took pofTeflion of it in the name of thatKing, t527> by him called Florida: Its Coaft is on the Gulph ofMexico, which flows on its South ; it extends it felf nowfrom theRiver Palma^^ which bounds it on the Province of Vanftco, in NewSpain, unto Bay Saint Matheo-^ or Mar delNors between this Gulphand the Sea. Florida ftretches out a Penwfnla towards the South, uhere the Capeof Florida is not diftant from the Ifla
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