deavoured to improve the modern geography, rectified the chronology, and fhewn the prefent ftate, revolutions, and changes of government, that have happened in the refpective nations defcribed, but caufed a fet of new maps to be engraved, that may agree with the work, and corrected them with my own hand; for fince the days of my friend Moll the geographer, we have had nothing but copies of foreign maps, by engravers unfkilled in geography, who have copied them with all their er In these maps the degrees of Eastern and Western Longitude will be found on the top of each map, and the hours and minutes every place lyes Eaft or Weft of London, (the first meridian,) at the bottom of the map; fhewing, at one view, the number of degrees, and the difference, in point of time, between any two places on the globe: For instance, any place which is fituated one degree East of another, will appear to have the fun four minutes of time before it; and a place fituated one degree Weft of another, will appear to have the fun four minutes after it. Again, a place fituated 15 degrees East of London, (as Naples,) will appear to have the fun one complete hour before thofe at London; and a place fituated 15 degrees Weft of them, (as the island of Madeira,) will appear to have the fun an hour after they have it at London; which is much easier apprehended by viewing a map of this kind than by any definition or explanation whatever. THE THE CONTENT S. THE "HE Introduction, containing, 1. A compendium of aftronomy, 3 - of the globe, 4 Geographical problems, theorems, 6. A fhort abridgement of univerfal hiftory, Page 14 23 26 35 40 53 78 And then follows, A particular description of the several kingdoms and E U e e With an epitome of the biflory, memorable events, and remarkable curiofi ties of the refpective countries, 43 er In the following order: Page 536,-539 Inlands belonging to Turkey in Europe, being part of ancient Greece, The rest of the European islands are defcribed with the countries to which they respectively belong, as thofe of Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, &c. 7. A particular defcription of the feveral kingdoms and commonwealths of A SI A, With an epitome of the biftory, memorable events, and remarkable curiofi ties of the refpective countries, viz. 3. A particular defcription of the kingdoms and commonwealths of AFRIC ICA, With an epitome of their respective bistories, curiosities, &c. |