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The modern gazetteer: or Compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the ...pires, ...ngdoms, ...ates, ...publicks, ...ovinces, ...ties, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadles, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories. In the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants. The ...tent, bounds, and natural productions of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, beating and distances in English miles from remarkable places; as also ... sieges they have undergone, and the battles that have been fought near them, particularly those of the last war; attention has also been paid to the partition made by the late treaty of peace. In the articles of Ireland and America all advantages have been taken of whatever has been hitherto wrote, with many thousand additions, not to be found in any other geographical dictionary of gazetteer. The second edition, carefully corrected, with a collection of modern maps, those of Germany and America, will illustrate the theatre of the late war, (carefully attended to in this work the latter in particular points out, the now British Empire there, with the late conquests. R. Brookes, M.D. author of The new system of natural history
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General gazetteer
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The modern gazetteer: or Compendious geographical dictionary. [electronic resource] : Containing a description of all the ...pires, ...ngdoms, ...ates, ...publicks, ...ovinces, ...ties, chief towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadles, seas, harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and promontories. In the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants. The ...tent, bounds, and natural productions of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, beating and distances in English miles from remarkable places; as also ... sieges they have undergone, and the battles that have been fought near them, particularly those of the last war; attention has also been paid to the partition made by the late treaty of peace. In the articles of Ireland and America all advantages have been taken of whatever has been hitherto wrote, with many thousand additions, not to be found in any other geographical dictionary of gazetteer. The second edition, carefully corrected, with a collection of modern maps, those of Germany and America, will illustrate the theatre of the late war, (carefully attended to in this work the latter in particular points out, the now British Empire there, with the late conquests. R. Brookes, M.D. author of The new system of natural history.
Published
Dublin : [Pri]nted for W. and W. Smith, J. Exshaw and T. Dxton, M,DCC,LXV. [1765]
Physical Description
vii,[633]p.,plates : maps ; 12⁰.
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Notes
Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2010
References
Alston, R. Bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800 , XI.99
English short title catalogue, T221383.
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Ireland Dublin.
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