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chipelago, and others in the gulph of Venice, 
If you apply your compaffes to that fcale of 
Englifh miles, and then ftride them from 
one end to the other of the Mediterranean 
fea, you will find it about 2000 miles in 
length. With your compares thus fixed, 
you can inftantly meafure any of the king- 
doms, or dates, in this map, or the diftance 
between any two places. 
The map being coloured, you immedi- 
ately perceive the fize and fituation of the 
feveral kingdoms, &c. You obferve the pro- 
digious extent of the Ruffian Empire, and 
the remainder you will find covers an equal 
proportion of Afia. Sweden, though not 
very powerful, is next in fize. France, 
Spain, Germany, Poland, Denmark and Nor- 
way, Turkey, England and Ireland, Italy and 
its appendages, differ not materially in di- 
menfions. The fmall States and Kingdoms 
are, Holland, Switzerland, Portugal and Pruf- 
fia; but you are not to efKmate the territo- 
ries of his Pruflian Majefty, by the fize of 
his kingdom. He is, befides, Elector of Bran- 
denburgh in Germany, where you will find 
his capital, Berlin. To thefe the great Fre- 
derick added Silefia, which he took from the 
Emprefs, and obtained a confiderable flice 
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