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ADVERTISEMENT 



THE distinguished approbation which the public 

 have shown to this work, as is evident from the many 

 editions through which it has passed, from the rapidity of 

 the sale of very large impressions, and from the increas- 

 ing demand which continues to be made for it, affords, it 

 may be presumed, a proof sufficiently satisfactory of its 

 utility and excellence. 



In this edition, however, very considerable improve- 

 ments, and a variety of alterations and additions, have 

 been made, of which it will be necessary to give some 

 account. 



In the first place, a regular and uniform arrangement 

 has been given to the several articles or heads which 

 compose the descriptions of each country, with the addi- 

 tion of such as were found necessary to complete this 

 uniformity. Some alterations have likewise been made 

 in the arrangement of the several countries and kingdoms, 

 which, except in one or two instances, where a somewhat 

 abrupt transition was unavoidable, are treated of accord- 

 ing to their contiguity of situation ; an order which ap- 

 pears at once more natural and more adapted to a geogra- 

 phical work, than an arrangement derived from their 

 supposed political importance, by which the reader is 

 suddenly transported from Prussia to Spain ; from Spain 

 to Turkey in Europe ; and from Turkey in Europe to 

 Holland. 



New tables have been given of the divisions of seve- 

 ral countries, as of the provinces of Sweden and the go- 

 vernments of Russia, To the enumeration of the coun- 

 ties of England and Scotland are added the number of 



