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GENERAL INDEX. 
G E O G R A P H Y, 340-412. 
A byssinia, 405. 
Aca, or Acre, 388. 
Achaia, or Hellas, 377; Achaia Propria, 
378. 
Acherufa, 385. 
Adrianople in Turkey, 396. 
^tna, or Gibello, 38a. 
Africa, ancient, 391 j Propria, 392 ; mo¬ 
dern, 404; illands of, 405 ; coarts of, 410. 
Albania, now Dagheftan, 387. 
Albion, fuperior, fjoferior, eC ulteriorr369. 
Aleppo, in TurkiflrAfia, 401. 
Alexandria, and Alexandrina Regio, 391, 
Alps and Pyrenees, 396, 
Altaic chain of mountains, 400. 
Amazonia in South America, 406. 
America, 405; North and South, 406 ; 
mountains, 407 ; coafts, 411. 
Amida, or Diabekir, 387. 
Amilerdam, 394, 5. 
Ancyra, or Angora, 386. 
Andes mountains, 407. 
Anglefea ifland, 398. 
Antioch, 387. 
Apamea, or Mylea, 385. 
Apennines mountains, 396. 
Apulia, Daunia, and Pucetia, 381. 
Aquitania, 372. 
Arabia, 389, 401. 
Arabian geographers, 346. 
Aral, fea or lake of, 400. 
Araxes, in Perfra, 390. 
Arbela, 389. 
Arcadia, 378. 
Archimedes, his important dlfcoveries, 342. 
Ardiic and Antardiic Seas, 408. 
Argia, or Argolis, 378. 
Aria, or Ariana, 390. 
Armenia, 387, 401; Minor, 386. 
Armillary Sphere, 3555 to redlify, 356. 
Afia, ancient, 383; Minor, 384, 401 ; 
Southern, 3905 modern, 399; coafts of, 
410. 
AlTyria and the AlTyrian empire, 389. 
Atlantic Ocean, 407. 
Attis, or Attica, 377- 
Ava, capital of the Birmans, 403. 
Auftralafia, 407. 
Auftria, 395. 
Azimuth, 348. 
Azores illands, 397? 40S' 
Babylon, 390. 
Babylonia, or Irak Arabi, 389, 390. 
Bagradas river, 392. 
Bahrin and Bahrein, 401. 
Baikal, fea of, 400. 
Barbary Bates, 405. 
Bersea, now Aleppo, 388. 
Berlin,,capital of Prulfia, 394. 
Bethlehem, the birth-place of our Saviour, 
388. 
Birman empire, 403. 
Bithynia, 385. 
Blue and Yellow Rivers in China, 404, 
Boeotia in Achaia, 377. 
Borneo, a large ifland, 404. 
Brazil, 407. 
Britain, ancient, 369; modern, 397. 
Britannia antiqua, i. e. Prima eC Secunda, 
369- 
Bruttium, or Calabria, 382. 
Buenos Ayres, 407. 
Burfa, or Prufa, 401; 
Vot. YIII. No. 560. 
Cablra, or Sebafte, 386. 
Calabria, 381. 
Cambodia, 404, 41c. 
Campania, 381. 
Canada, 406, 
Canary Iflanijs, 405. 
Candia, 396. 
Cape Verd Illands, 405. 
Cappadocia, 386. 
Caria, 386. 
Carmania, 390. 
Carmel, and other mountains in Paleftine, 
388. 
Carnatic, or South India, 402, 
Carniola, 409. 
Carthage, 392, 
Cafpian Sea, 400. 
Cbalcedon, the City of the Blind, 385, 
Chaldaea, 390. 
China, ancient, notices of, 383 5 modern, 
404. 
Churchman’s map for hilly countries, 365. 
Cilicia, 387. 
Circaflia, Georgia, &c. 401. 
Cirrheftica, 388. 
Climates, 340-1, 354; to find in what 
climate any place is, 367. 
Coelo-Syria, 388. 
Colchis, 387. 
Colures, 356, 
Cpmniagene, 387. 
Gonftance and Genoa, Lakes, 396'. 
Conftantinople, capital of Turkey, 396. 
Copenhagen, 393. 
Cork, in Ireland, 399. 
Coromandel, 402. 
Corfica, 383, 396. 
Curdiftan, or Aflyria, 401. 
Cyclades illands, 378, 
Cyprus, 388. 
Cyzicus, 384. 
Dacia, 374. 
Dalmatia, 375. 
Damafcus, 38 S, 401" 
Daphne, near Antiocli, 38S. 
Decapolis, 388. 
Delhi, capital of the Mogul empire, 402. 
Delta, 391. 
Denmaik, 393. 
Diarbec, a province of Turkey, 401. 
Drefden, the capital of Saxony, 395. 
Dublin, the capital of Ireland, 399. 
Earth’s circumference, 344. 
Eaftern Archipelago, its illands, 402. 
Ecbatana,- 389, 
Ecliptic, or fun’s apparent path, 350, 
356- 
Egypt, Lower and Upper, 391, 405; the 
extent of its coaft unknown, 410. 
Egyptians, their early knowledge of geo¬ 
graphy inftanced in the pyramids, 341, 
Elcea, 385. 
Elis in the Peloponnefus, 378. 
England, counties of, 397; Englilh Ocean* 
Britilh Channel, Set, 407. 
Ephefus, 385. 
Epirus, 376. 
Equator, 348, 355, 6. 
Equinoxes, 351. 
Eratofthenes, his map, 343, 4. 
Efquimaux, or Labrador, 411. 
Ethiopia, Upper and Lower, 405. 
Etruria, orTufeany, 379. 
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Euboea, or Negropont, 379. 
Eudlemon and Merton, Greek geographeu* 
341. 
Euphrates, 390. 
Europe, ancient, 369 ; -modern, 393 ; ex¬ 
tent and direftion of its coafts, 408. 
Fhvia Caefaritnfis, 369. 
Fioridas, 406. 
Formofa, a Chinefe ifland, 404. 
France, 396. 
Galatia, 385. 
Galilee, 388. 
Gallia antiqua ; I. e. Narbonenfis et Lug. 
dunenfis, 3724 Belgica, 373. 
Gallia Cifalpina, Tranfpadana, and Cifpa- 
dana, in Italy, 379. 
Gaur mountains, 402. 
Gauts mountains, 402. 
Gedrofia, 390. 
Genghis Khan, his empire in Afia, 399, 
Genloos, 402. 
Geography, definition, divllion, and early 
hiftory, 340; improved by the con- 
quefts of the Romans, 343 ; erroneous 
iyftems, 346 j improved by the inven¬ 
tion of clocks, 347; writers on, 347; 
praftical geography, 347-368; defini¬ 
tions, and illuftra'tions, 348 ; problems, 
366 ; hiltorical geography, 368; ancient* 
369-393 ; modern, 393.412. 
Germania antiqua, 373, 
Germany and Auftria, 395. 
Getulia, or Barbary, 392. 
Gibraltar, 397. 
Gir, or Niger, river, 392; 
Globes, imperfedlion of thofe commonly 
made, 357; ufe of them, 3585 to 
make, 359; problems to be folved by 
them, 366. 
Grascia antiqua, including Macedon, Thef- 
faly, Epirus, Thrace, 376, 395; Gfae* 
cia vera, and Achaia, 377 * Pelopon¬ 
nefus, and Illands, 378. 
Granicus, 384. 
Great Britain, 397 ; Britilh America, 40$ 
Greece, modern, 395 ; its coafts, 409. 
Greenland, 393 ; Eaft and Weft, 394. 
Guinea, Upper and Lower, 405, 
Hague, the largeft village in the world* 
394 - 
Halicarnalfus, 386. 
Hayti, or St. Domingo, 406. 
Hecla, in Iceland, 394. 
Heliopolis, now Balbec, 38S, 
Herodotus, remarks upon his knowledge 
of geography, 346. 
Hierofolyma, or Jerufalem, 388. 
Hindooftan, 402 ; prefent ftate, 403. - 
Hipparchus, an eaily aftronomer and geo¬ 
grapher, 341, 2, 3, 4* _ 
Hifpania antiqua, 1. e. Ulterior et Citerior* 
371 ; Transfretana, 392. 
Holland, 394. 
Homer, the cities which claim the honour 
of his birth, 385. 
Horizon, 348, 355. 
Hyeres, or Ifland of Calypfo, 396, 
Hyrcania, 390. 
Japan, empire of, 404, 
Iberia, 387. 
Iceland, 394. 
Ida, mount, 396. 
Idumea, or Edom, 389, 
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