Identifier: geographyrectifi00mord (find matches)
Title: Geography rectified; or, A description of the world, in all its kingdoms, provinces, countries ... As also their commodities, coins, weights, and measures, compared with those at London. Illustrated with seventy eight maps. The 3d ed., enl. To which is added a compleat geographical index to the whole, alphabetically digested. The whole work performed according to the more accurate observations and discoveries of modern authors
Year: 1693 (1690s)
Authors: Morden, Robert, d. 1703
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, Printed for R. Morden and T. Cockerill
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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j^B , ^uiiMuum DUilUlJUlllL THE Iflandof Ja^an^ if it be an ffle, is not only oncf&t many 5,for the Coaft, difcontinued with many Inlets, fiands like a^broken wall, and the feveial falls of FwAl^watci^Biooks and Ri^ vwletSj Of cBml 44^ vulets, cTefcending from the upper Grounds, with their mixt inter-weavings, both from Sea and Land, make a numerous crowd ofpetty Ifles, the moftfpacious and wealthy whtxtoVxs Japan, by theNdLtives Nippon, formerly faki to comprehend fifty three Kingdoms ibut our hter Relations tell us, that they are now fallen into the lapof one fole Monarch, who keeps his magnificent Court itjedo. ThisIfland extends in length fevcn hundred and twenty Miles,, the breadthgenerally about one hundred and eighty, but various. The Eaft lookstowards Californea in America, though four thoufand and two hun-dred Miles diftant. I am not ignorant, that fome Geographers havemade them to meet, others bring them very near together : I havetwo Lunar obfervations, and the coherenc

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