ADVERTISEMENT. 



inhabitants in each, according to the returns under the 

 late population act. A table is also given of the depart- 

 ments of France, including those into which the countries 

 violently annexed to her territory were divided, with the 

 extent in square miles and population of each, as pub- 

 lished by the French government. General views are 

 added of the dominions, revenues, and forces of the Aus- 

 trian and Prussian monarchies in their present state, with 

 additional separate descriptions of several countries ap- 

 pertaining to them ; as Gallicia, or Austrian Poland, 

 £>ilesia, and Moravia. 



Nor have our improvements of this kind been confined 

 to Europe : the aecount of Hindoostan, its divisious, &c. 

 lias received a new arrangement, and been carefully re- 

 vised, with a variety of alterations and additions. New 

 and separate descriptions have likewise been given of the 

 countries of Chinese Tartary, Tibet, Independent Tar- 

 tary and Asiatic Russia ; as also of the settlement of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



In the two last editions of this work, many important 

 corrections and additions were made from the latest voy- 

 ages and travels ; among which may be enumerated sir 

 George Staunton's account of the voyage and embassy of 

 lord Macartney to China; the embassies to Tibet and 

 Ava, of captain Turner and major Symes ; the travels 

 of Mr. Park in Africa, with the geographical illustrations 

 of his journey by that judicious geographer major Ren- 

 nell; those of Mr. Browne in Egypt and Dar-Fur ; and 

 the voyages of the unfortunate French navigator M. de 

 la Perouse, and captain Vancouver. In the present 

 edition we have availed ourselves of the travels of Mr. 

 Barrow in Southern Africa, and those of Mr. Horne- 

 mann, into the interior of the same continent; of those of 

 Mr. Acerbi in Sweden and to the North Cape in Lap- 

 land : of those of Mr. Clarke in Russia ; and of those 

 of Mackenzie, Ellicot, Michaud, Heriott, Lewis and, 

 Clarke, and Pike, in North America. 



As this work is historical as well as geographical, tha 



