Identifier: systemofgeograph00moll (find matches)
Title: A system of geography; or, A new & accurate description of the earth in all its empires, kingdoms and states. Illustrated with history and topography, and maps of every country ..
Year: 1701 (1700s)
Authors: Moll, Herman, d. 1732 Falconer, Robert, fl. 1700 Luyts, Jan, 1655-1721
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, T. Childe
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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f fo tawny a Complexionas the reft of the Iflanders, were heretofore Ca-nibals, or Man-eaters, and go naked, only co-vering their privy Parts: Six Kingdoms are con-taind (according to feveral Authors) in tliisIfland, although others only take notice of thetwo principal, viz,. Celebes and AlacaJJer: Themoft remarkable Towns are, AlacaJJer, the Ca-pital, feated in the Southern Part oi the Ifland, to The Ijlands of the Indian Ocean. to which, as alfo to the neighbouring Straight^ Tello; Gon, Ciom, or Cmm; and GUbn or Ol- it gives Name, and is a fainous Mart, with a W«., by others, taken for the Metropola of thu fine Harbour, mych trecjuented by the HngliHi Ifland, and f.tuatcd on the Wdtcrn Coafl Juft and Hollanders: Other Towns are B4«frfcL-4; under the Line. v^ait ;uix 55 CHAP. XIV. The Jflands of the Indian Ocean over againji Siam, and the Indiau Coajis. ~*B S js A or China TfhePnncinttl Islands aftliA East Indies. J ^ S ^ 7 ^ S °, m S -i^**^ t1 Vcro Xrmofc JfnrxU J^ntsPbilipuaA or
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, A FTER having defcribd the principal If^ne if r\ lands of the Indian Ocean, over againltlands 0. -^ ^ China, both the nearer and thofc that aretw a- more remote; we proceed to give an Account ojimft the reft of the Ifles of the fame Ocean, tuatedIndia, over againft the Continent of Mia, and may be conveniently divided into two Ranks; in regaiithat they lye, either over againft the Pcninfulaof India, beyond Ganzes, or oppofitc to the otherPeninfula, on the hitter fide of that River: TheNames and chief To>vns whereof are fccn in thisTable- __ 5^ The IjJands- of the Indian Ocean. Thelf-lands ofthe Indi-an Oce-an, overagainft ■India, be-yond tlieRiver aie Underthe Equi-.noftial ^Line Borneo Malano1 Pucliavaraon SambasBorneo < Hormata Landa1 Siiccadano LaveBendarip.aflln. rAchem Pedir TiconPacem Goro AruBancaHs Camper^. J Soiifon Baras !)uinaLia <^ p^j^^^^^^jj Menancabo Judapera SalleborDampin Janibe3aros Palimbati Banca Banca To theSouth oftheE-qiiator Ciimbava LombocBaly Jav

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