A new and complete geographical dictionary
Subtitle: Containing a full and accurate description of the several parts of the known world, as divided into continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, &c. The situation, extent, and boundaries, of all the empires, kindgoms, provinces, states, &c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their climates, ... constitutions, ... produce, languages, manufactures, trade, commerce, cities, chief towns, universities, ... pictures, ruins, antiquities, mines, vegetation, minerals, mountains, desarts, forts, castles, harbours, natural and artificial curiosities. Together with the religion, learning, policy, manners, customs, stature, shape, colour, and length of lives of the inhabitants; their virtues and vices; their ceremonies at births, marriages, and funerals; their political and church government, &c. To which will be prefixed, an introductory dissertation, explaining the figure and motion of the Earth, the use of the globes, and doctrine of the sphere; with the improvements of the moderns, to render the science of geography easy and intelligible to every capacity. And to render this performance still more perfect and useful, we shall add to the description of every city and town in England, the names of the inns where their respective stage coaches and waggons put up in London, and the days and hours of their setting out from thence. Illustrated with an accurate set of maps, the dresses of the inhabitants, and variety of perspective views of the principal cities, towns, harbours, structures, ruins, &c. By Frederic Watson, M.A. vicar of Sutton, and several other gentlemen
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed for the authors, and sold by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet-Street, and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 590
Subjects: Geography; Dictionaries
Notes: Titlepage in red and black.

Reproduction of the original from the National Library of Wales.