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.

Date:

M,DCC,LXV. [1765]