UNIVIRSAL ERUDITION. 



aftronomical obfervations, and are laid dowrt 

 with the ftrideft precifion. The planning and 

 executing of maps requires great judgment, 

 when they are fo made as to give a juft reprefen- 

 tation of the terreftrial globe, in all its various 

 divifions. The Cofmographic fociety fuppofe 

 that the horizontal or ftereographic projection 

 is the moil eligible, as it bears the greateft re- 

 femblance to the globe itfelf. We arc indebted 

 to the celebrated Hubner, formerly reftor of 

 the college at Hamburg, for the invention of 

 illuminating maps with different tranfparent co- 

 lours, by which the limits of each country arc 

 diftinguifhed, after a regular and fyftematic man- 

 ner. 



XX. We might here add the folution of va- 

 rious problems, explain certain paradoxes, and 

 relate many geographic curiofities; but thefe 

 particulars would carry us beyond our limits : 

 and befide, they 'more properly belong to the 

 fludy of geography itfelf, and are likewife more 

 curious than ufeful. The moft finifhed parti- 

 cular map that we know, and which may ferve 

 as a patern for all others, is that of Bohemia, by 

 Muller. 



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