GEOGRAPHY. 36* 



others imitated him, and drew maps of particu- 

 lar countries. Abraham Ortelius and Daniel 

 Cellarius collected them, and Gerard Merca- 

 tor reduced them into a regular fyftem. Wil- 

 liam and John Bleau, and John Janfibn or Jan- 

 fenius followed this fyftem. Sometime after, 

 Sanfon defigned new maps: Francis de Witt 

 and the younger Vifcher improved them, and 

 the Germans copied them ; but at length H. 

 Moll, an Englifhman, and William de L'Ifle, a 

 Frenchman, defigned and executed maps that 

 were fo correct and beautiful as to efface the 

 merit ot all that had been done before. There 

 is a collection of forty two maps of M. de L'Ifle, 

 that is beheld with admiration by all connoif- 

 feurs. But as the arts are to be brought to per- 

 fection by degrees only, MefT. Thomas Kitchin-, 

 and J. M. Hafc, have (till corrected fome little 

 inaccuracies in the maps of MefT. Moll and de 

 L'Ifle. The cofmographical fociety of Nurem- 

 berg, the academy of fciences of Berlin, the 

 fucceflbrs of Homarin. Mefl*. Zurner, Scutter, 

 &c. in Germany, Meflf. Anville, Buache 

 and Bellin in France, and many other able ge- 

 ographers, labour inceflantly, in giving to maps 

 and charts the greateft degree of perfection 

 pofljble. 



X. The bed maps and charts (and per- 

 haps fuch only as deferve to be called good) 

 arc thole where the firuation of places and the 

 Innics of countries arc determined by accurate 



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