Volume 1

Atlas geographus: or, a compleat system of geography, ancient and modern / Containing what is most of use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. With the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this time. Illustrated with about 100 new maps, done from the latest observations, by Herman Moll, geographer. And many other cuts, by the best artists.

  • Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1711-1717
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Credit: Atlas geographus: or, a compleat system of geography, ancient and modern / Containing what is most of use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. With the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this time. Illustrated with about 100 new maps, done from the latest observations, by Herman Moll, geographer. And many other cuts, by the best artists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    made of Salt by Art. If you feparate Salt from the Earth, itwili.no more hick together, but becomes meet Du ft, and cannot be reduced to Hardnefs without a Mixture of Salt. Prop. VI. The Sorts of Earth are dif¬ ferently mix'd among one another in the Bowels of it. Thus in Mines there are found Parti¬ cles of Gold, Silver, and Lead, not fepa- rate from other Particles, but Iometimes mutually mix’d with one another, and iometimes with the Earth ; and in fome final 1 Particles, that Artifts cannot dif- cover at firft Sight but by other Ways of Trial, what it is that is contained in any Mineral Earth. When at Amfier- dam a Well was dug 232Foot deep, the Veins of Earth appeared as follows : 7 Foot of Garden Mold ; p of Turf, or Peat • p of loft Clay ,* 8 of Sand ; 4 of Earth ; 10 of Clay ; 4 of Earth ; 10 of Paving Sand; 2 of Clay ^ 4 of White Loam ; 5 of dry Earth ; 1 of muddy Earth; 14 of Sand; 3 of Tandy Clay ; of Sand mix’d with Clay ; 4 of Sea- nd mix’d with Shells; and then Clay of 102 Foot deep ; and at laft 31 Foot of Loam, where the Digging ceafed. Prop. VII. The Cavities of the Earth, and its internal and external Difpofi.ion and Situation of Parts, are not always the Jame} but differ at different Times : For not only the Sea makes feveral Changes in Parts of the Earth, by hop ping up fome Cavities, and enlarging others, but Spirits and Sulphureous Sub- fiances lurking here and there in the Earth, when they begin to kindle, and to be refolved into Vapours, they itn- petuoufly move and thruft forward the Parts of the Earth, as is plain from Earthquakes; and ’tis very probable there are fuch Motions in the innennoft Parts of the Earth, of moft of which we per¬ ceive nothing. Sect. XV. Of the Divifion of the Earth the Ocean. tHE Terraqueous Globe is divided into Earth covered by the Water, in¬ to Earth Handing out of the Water, and Water it lelf. The Surface of the Earth handing out of the Sea, is divided into thefe Four Parts by the In ter flux of the Water. I. Into great Continents, or greateftlflands; of which we reckon Four : On the North, the Northern, _ = Frozen, and Tartarian Sea. l The Old World,551^’ °n, ,the cEaft’ the Pacifiik and whole Parts are, £ r of this Con- *! Mum Sea. Africa. 3 tinent, are, On the South, the South Sea. *On the Well, the Atlantick% 2.n»e New World, $ Northern,' j Boundaries or America, whole < and ^ Parts are, t Southern*, ) .On the North, Davis's Streights* On the Eaft, the Atbntick Sea. 'On the South, the Magellanick \ Streights. On the Weft, the Pacifick Sea. 3. The Land of the North Pole, or Greenland, is every where encompafied by the Sea and Streights. 4. The South Land, or Land of Magellan, not yet difeovered,