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Geography - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A new and universal geographical grammar: or, a complete system of geography. Containing the ancient and present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republics, in the known world: their dimensions, history, climate, soil and produce, manufactures, trade, commerce, colonies, constitutions, revenues, forces by sea and land, rivers, harbours, lakes, cities, principal towns, universities, ruins, antiquities, curiosities, mountains, caverns, animals, vegetables, mines, minerals, &c. The genius, language, learning, manners, customs, and habits of the inhabitants. and a succinct and easy introduction to the scientific parts of geography: explaining the true system of the world; the doctrine of the sphere; the figure, magnitude, and motion of the earth; the use of the globes; and the nature, use, and construction of maps and charts. With a new and complete set of maps, and a variety of copper-plates, necessary to illustrate and embellish the work. In two volumes. ... By E. Jones, Teacher of the Classics and Geography, at Bromley, in Kent.
Jones, Evan, active 1773.Date: M DCC LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Eucheiridion geographicum. Or, a manual of geography. Being a description of all the empires, kingdoms, and dominions of the earth. Shewing Their Situation, Bounds, Dimensions, Commodities, Ancient and Modern Governments, Divisions, chief Cities, Religions, Languages, chief Rivers, Arch-Bishopricks, Bishopricks, and Universities. Collected from the best Books on that Subject. By M. S.
Symson, Matthias, M.A.Date: printed in the year, M. DC. IV. [1704]