THE Geographical Magazine; OR A NEW, COPIOUS, COMPLEAT, AND UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF GEOGRAPHY: CONTAINING An Accurate and Entertaining ACCOUNT and DESCRIPTION of the Several Continents, Islands ... and Bays, OF Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; DIVIDED INTO EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, AND COLONIES, WITH THE Climate, Situation, Extent and Boundaries of Each; and Their Several Provinces, Districts ... ALSO, The Various Forms of Government, Laws ... of the Different Countries; with All the Castles ... Herbs, and Other Vegetable Productions. Their Literature, Arts ... and Commerce. The Customs, Manners ... and Civil and Religious Ceremonies of the Inhabitants; with the Titles and Distinctions of Honour Peculiar to Each Country. AND Pleasing and Interesting Descriptions of the Infinite Variety of Birds ... and Insects. LIKEWISE, An Exact Account of the Coins, Weights and Measures, of the Various Countries; with Tables, Reducing Them to the Value and Standard of Great Britain; a Geographical Index, Containing the Names of Places, Alphabetically Arranged; a Biographical List of Learned, Eminent, and Ingenious Men, of Every Age and Country; and a Chronological Table of Remarkable Events from the Creation of the World. WITH A Concise HISTORY of Each Country, from the Earliest Periods; Comprehending an Interesting and Entertaining Compendium OF ANCIENT AND MODERN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. To which are Prefixed An INTRODUCTORY TREATISE on the Sciences of GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY; and Their Relation to Each Other: With the FIGURES, MOTIONS, and DISTANCES of the PLANETS, Agreeable to the NEWTONIAN System, and the Observations, Discoveries, and Improvements, of Dr. HALLEY, Mr. FERGUSON, and Others. AND A New and Familiar GUIDE to the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial GLOBES, Volume 2
William Fordyce Mavor
