The gazetteer's; or, Newsman's interpreter: Being a geographical index of all the considerable provinces, cities, patriarchships, bishopricks, universities, dukedoms, earldoms, and such like; imperial and hanse towns, ports, forts, castles, &c. in Europe. Shewing, in what kingdoms, provinces, and counties they are; to what Prince they are now subject; upon, or nigh what rivers, bays, seas, mountains, &c. they stand; their distances (in English miles) from several other places of note; with their longitude and latitude, according to the best and approved maps: with the addition of the table of the births, marriages, &c. of all the Kings, Princes and Potentates of Europe. Of special use for the true understanding of all modern histories of Europe, as well as the present affairs; and for the conveniency of cheapness and pocket carriage, explained by abbreviations and figures. The fifteenth edition corrected, and very much enlarged with the addition of all the several provinces and counties in Europe, and all the towns in Great-Britain, which send members to Parliament; and of the towns and other places that give titles to the nobility; with the counties they lie in, and their distances from London. By Laurence Echard, M.A. of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which is added, by way of appendix, by another hand, a geographical description of Ireland.

Date:

MDCCXL. [1740]