The modern gazetteer: or compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states, Republicks, Provinces, cities, Chief Towns, Forts, Fortresses, Castles, Citadels, 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 Extent, Bounds, and Natural Productions of each Country; and the Trade, Manufactures, and Curiosities of the Cities and Towns; their Longitude, Latitude, Bearing and Distances in English Miles from remarkable Places; AS Also The 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 or Gazetteer. The third edition, carefully corrected. With a collection of modern maps: also an appendix ; containing a Description and accurate Chart, of the Falkland Islands; which are the Cause of the present Negotiation, and expected War, between the Courts of Great-Britain and Spain. By R. Brookes, M. D. Author of the New System of Natural History.
- Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.
- Date:
- M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]
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Also known as
General gazetteer
Publication/Creation
Dublin : printed for W. and W. Smith, J. Exshaw and J. Williams, M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]
Physical description
[632]p.,plates : maps ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T122068
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.