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 . le and penetrating Poyfon, an ouncewhereof is valued at a hundred Ducats. Infomuch that one of theprincipal Revenues of the King is in the Duties,,which he receives forthe Expor
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 . le and penetrating Poyfon, an ouncewhereof is valued at a hundred Ducats. Infomuch that one of theprincipal Revenues of the King is in the Duties,,which he receives forthe Exportation of this Poyfon. They fell it toftrangers, upon con-dition they (hall not make ufe of it, within the Kingdom. There growSugar-Canes in the Country, but the Natives know not what to do withthem. There are among them a fort of Bereberes., of the Muflelman Re-ligion, who travel in Troops to Cairo., where they put themfelves intofervice, and retura again, as foon as they have gotten or twelve Piafterstogether. The Capital Cities are Nubia., and Dancala^ near to reft fo little known, that it fuffices to fee their names in the Relation made in the year 1670, tells us. That the King of Dancalapays a Tribute in Linnen Cloath, to the King of thQ-^byjfws. Geo-graphy is in fome meafure beholding to this Country, as being the placethat gave birth to that famous Nubian Geographer. ^ X ^ Of Of ETHIOPIA,. So little of Truth bath been comtnankated to ^s P°fthe World concerning , that met |BM^kK Hiftory of job. Udolfns, which is the molt exaft 5ro Of E T H I 0 P I A. Account extant : I have beer, the larger in .takicg an Abftraft of nm if ^\«hor tells m, in ^ above f?™ bevondN»h,^, bctweenthe eighth and taeerth Decree of North to all our Maps extant, which extends i felf o the fonrteenth or fifteenth Degree : So that ttleRehonr oSofn T ° fo-hLn,dredandeghfy Mtoof fixty to a Degree ; but according to the old Maos i
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