MODERN GEOGRAPHY.
HAVING thus given a deception! .fuffipiently ample, ,as is pre-
fiimed, <bf Europe, that
of the; remaimhg'three-qbartfer^dMll be morereftiided, daithe topics
areC)g^etailyTlefs^lld^g!tb4Kt!E.hi6phkn'reaherjarid‘inman7 inftances
the materials'are imperfed. Of fome parts of America, and the vaft
"ceptrairegions^of Africa, lit t le "k n ow n : but Afia prefects!a more
le^entive idiemp,., ancf teelaii withjlfcjtiei^bf important events in afferent
^nS jnpqern^ jhinory. *. ‘
AS ; I A. /
U T his great divifion of-the earth .extends, in .length, from th,e Hejlef- Ektent.
pont «to what is called the Eaft Capethatjs from abput the 26* of
longitude, eaft from London, Into the other hemifph'dfe to near 190 degrees
of- eaft longitude,' or 17a0 weft frbrp-London* ,-b^ing nodeQs than
164° or (taking Jthq degree at a medial latitude) more- than f^oo geo-
graphical miles. From/the fouthern cape of Malacca to ,^he cape of
Cevero VoftocHriof,' winch braves the ic|/of,;the Ardic ocean, the
breadth extends from ^hout 20 of northern latitude to ^bout, 7,7°, or
nearly 4500 geographical ®gjg If, for* the M g a rude and merely
comparative calculationrone fix*, part be added for.the difference between
the ftatute and geographical‘mile, the length of Aha m Bntilh
miles would be about 7 ^ § and the.g^dtff 5^-of
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