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in defcribing fome particular dates to their co- 

 temporaries , thus toward the end of the fix- 

 teenth century there appeared, the relations of 

 fome Venetian ambafifadors : the embattles of 

 the Ejrl of Carlifle, an En^iifh minifter : Moles- 

 worch's account or the llace of Denmark , and 

 a number of other works of the fame kind. M. 

 Everhard Otto, profellbr at Utrecht, and after- 

 ward lenator at Bremen, was the firll who made 

 a collection of theie fcattered accounts, and, by 

 adding his own informations, compofed a very 

 good work, under the title of Notitia prsecipu- 

 arum Europe Rerumpublicarum. We have 

 alfo La description du monde, de Jean Funck : 

 and a very good work in Englifh, intitled Mo- 

 dern hiftory, or the prelent date of all nations, 

 by Mr. Salmon, illuftrated with cuts, London 

 -> work has been tranflated into Ita- 

 lian and Dutch, with fome advantageous altera- 

 tions. 



IV. It would be far from j.uft, in this place, 

 to pafs over in filence the obligations this fci- 

 has to M. Godfrey Achenwal, profeflbr 

 at Gottingen, who has not only compofed an 

 Introduction to the political fyftem of the mo- 

 dern itates of Europe-, and another work not 

 ng, intitled Principles of the hif- 

 of Europe, leading to the knowledge of 

 the principal dates of the prelent time; but 

 bos been alfo the firft to reduce this important 



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