tory of thé country : but the 'Hlftéire Génerale de la
Chine, J2 vols. 4to is au interéfting work, and a
lingular monument of French fcience. Add the excel
lent Travels bf -Bell,; 2 vols. 4L0. or Svo. ; and particularly
Sir,George Staunton’s Account of the Em-
bally to China, and Van Braam’s Travels.
I I l f j |
There is no. good large map, tliofe of Kimpfer
only dil'playing part of the coaftï’ along which he
travelled, while his general map is'fmall. -D’Anville
has made fame improvements; and" there is a map in
one (h. by Robert ®.
Kaempfir’s .Japan, and Thunberg’s Travels, both
excellent. ■ r|
'Birman Umpire^ &e*
The -maps in Mr. Symes’s Journey. • The geography
of Exterior: India, is very imperfeft, but expected
to be improved by the refearches Of Mr. Dal-
ryinple. Fpr'Siam i i ’AnviTle’s map of Afia'may be
confulted ; and for the outline of the coaffis the charts
of D ’Apres, which are defervedly efteemed.
Loubcre’ s Siam. Turpin, Hiftoire de Siam, Paris,
1771, 2 vols.- Richard, Hiftoire' de Tonquin, Parisi
1778, 2 vols. 8vo. J . - -
Uhulajlan-.
Rennell’s map, 4 fh. . De la Roehette’s, i f f i .
good, 3ld edit. 1800. Rennell’s Atlas -of Bengal.
His map of the fouthern part, dated 5,th April tSoo.
D ’AnvÜle’s Hindoftan is antiquated and full of mif-
takes. Peninfula of India, Fade«, Ï7.95, 2 lh..
Hamilton’s New Account of the Eaft Indies.. Voyage
de Bernier, .excellent, though old. Bartholomeo.
(Wefdin’s.) Voyage, excellent for the fouthern parts!
Hodges’s Travels. Voyage de Sonnerat, 2 vols. 4to.
The account by Tieffenthaler, m Bernoulli’s collec,
tion, h a dull and tedious chorography. Knox’s
Ceylon, &c. - .
F q fa . .
There is no large map of this interefting.country.
That of de Lifle f , in I lh. maybe compared with
the Alia o fD ’Anville or Arrow,mith. The material»
are vague and imperfea ; and there can be little
dependence ori the longitudes or latitudes even of the
belt Oriental geographers. The recent map. by Wahl
Js idegible ; but deferves to be re-engra-ved in a:
-fuperior manner, and On a larger Rale. That of La
Rochette, to illuftrate.the marches of Alexander, is
very beautiful, and drawn up with confiderable cafe,
Georgia and Armenia, 4 lh. j 780.
^-^Me/Trs. Roberts, the'fetlrer and,iwi, were geographers of
confiderable reputation, particularly Robert, ftyJed de Vail-
gondy.
f There is one by Homann of Nuremberg, but that manu- •
facture is in little efteemr. In the Voyage of Niebuhr there is
an interefting map of the vicinity of PerftpoJ-is.
Voyage-dp Chardin, 4 vols. 4U). Thevertot’ Trak
■*tlsj had. Tavernier, good. Le Brun, bad, and'the
I plates feem to be frequently fabrications, as ufual m
•the Dilteh books of travels *. Hallway’s Travels are
good’,though, prolix. ' The Journey of -Franklin m-
ilrn£tive and a'mufing for the iouthern part, while the
northern r'is ' well illuftrated by Gradin'. After Oli-
-vier’s full. Volume, • little can be expeded from ’his
fécond. Otter’ s Journey, 1742, ranks amoiig the
I beft, but he is tb'o full of- quotations from tire Oriental
geographers. Della Valle efteemed. The-
Journey of Olearius, dr of.fthé Envoys fromTloldeiu.
Arabia*
. Maps of feveral provinces occuft in Nidyalir’» dev
feriptiony and it is- to bè regretted. that he did; not
ipubli&jan .entire-, qèw map. ‘ Tfe®'j|tS8ioI* k f
Mander Aar » but. the Jjeft are-tljofe.itU’the.Afia of
D ’Anville *4 Arrowfmith, -the former; is- pqbfiftied
apart hy Laurie and Whittle, as are Rdrfia,
and Turkey in Afin,
Niebuhr, Voyage en Arabic,' 2' tomé», qto,* àndfhis)
Defcription de l’Arabie, irtSme^tg. -To which may
be addedyla Roque Voyage en- Arabie Heirreufe,: 'and •
the Voyage dans la PaleftineJ Paris, 17 {»$8vhv-whichi
contains Abulfeda’s- Deforipribn of Arabia. - X :
AJiatic IJlandii.
Chart by Arrowfmith, 4 AeètSj .eietfëHérrti JTAnX
yilleVAfia. Mâp of. Sumatra, in Marfden., jOf, Jay|‘
in Stavorinus. The BhiUippines, D’Anville ;oijjAr-
rowfmith’s Alia. . .OX the. interior aBBofneoBCelefeczk
Sue. little, is known.
- S MarfUen’s Account 3Î Sumaïral FôrrelNs Voyage
to Papua. Voyajfte-ef $t«v-orinas-, &c. &e. f VMÆÜ
tyn’s account of the-Dutch pofieffions in -the Eaft
Indies; publiflied about 1728,-épnMs oLfive large folio
volumes, wjth. upwardsof a-thoufand "copper plates,
and is extremely rare even in Holland. Sonneras \
Voyage de la Nouvelle Guinée;; çto.
A u s t r a l a s i a . "
New Holland,. &c, in An-piHmij:h’s Chart, o£ the
Pacific, 9 lh. Thé fame reduced, 1 lh. ; ; _
De Brofles Hiftoire des- Navigations aux Terres-
Auftrales, Paris, 1756, 2- vols. 410. excellent. Dal-
rymple’s Golleftion of Voyages in the Pacific, 2 thin-
vois. 4to. and Supplement, curious and- intereftW.
La Borde Hill, de la Mer dé Sud, Paris; '1791, *
TO,s-. 8vo. Cook’ s- Voyages. Governor Phillip’ a.
Collins’s Hiftory of the Colony, 4to. &c.
♦ Thole pnbBrtied by Vender A» are particularly obnoxious;
the prints, as in Mandelflo 1 719..or 1727, being often trans-
ferred from old books ; nay, fometïmes, the farte view will fervet
for a great number of places, whether'they ftand on rocks or
plains».
P olynesia«.
: a n d ' B o o mwm
f Arrdwffm-tli’s Chart of the Pacific. -Maps in-De
Brottes; and of Olaheite and Tongataboo in th<
Miffipnary Voyage.- Iflands of .\ igatoni, in that o f
i^a 1 eroule, &c.
I f ,, Co<rk’8 X!!7aS<’s- Captain Bligh’s;- rh’.Tri'q&T.a
I ’MB8m §lS^ SE ^ rS i£ p ’i ‘ tmirVeT®Catcjlir.e
t, ); 1 * he SiJfipkpTofi At u®e lli oik j
1-48# hi P7 Gieefl,1' 17 ,5 , fov Ui'l’oiitgrai|,of 'fire" \ wy&fytty'* B y Jih'qjS: li’SioVeLL’.ffAfleml u'lp’-oi 1 [5 Th.’f'Sf*
. ■ ,eva£t, foi alS'.ti'i«.."
y fSSB)
gyd, ua
I IK
Aminfnith’ , M p, \ ifh mqircjiqmcft 3 id'*«,<fi->
P' l-O fi r 4, excellent.
.the
ire not inch/k-ilgpT^the« f f i H g H i
Be had'to to' the mad ofWWeffemter
b,fJ;e&rys-,-r(SIh. . fa
L.. There are maps of mod of the provinces j and
'a general Atlas- publifhed at Philadelphia, but in 'little-r
•efeem> • '
bfeedtidris I fe* ri ■ a p p § p
L ^^Singlefflieeti Oammoxii The prdfinfees'’in ’Mr.
Mapfe?^ worfc. - •
Morfe’s 'ti^hgiiaphy. T h e ‘'fr'a^ele'’of Kahn,’ Bur-
■ naby, Weld, R k ' | K ^ u A u l t S c . m •* ■’
-< fyavl/h Dominions'!» North America,
I . BM great -deficiency in the geography, as the Spa- I
arfa'rds are. peculiarly jealous of" thefe rich fettlements, I
their chief tenure on tlie-new coii.tinent. J.The Mexican |
•dominions id’ general feem delineated with confiderable J
I accuracy ihi’jffi'e map of the Weft Indies by Jefferys, ’
‘ id Hi. 1 correfted a'nd,improved to 1792 ; and the
fame reduced, 2 fh‘. j or' BoltOhis'''map in Pbftle-
tbwayte’-s OidHonary of Ccinnnercc. There are maps
of fome provinces by. Lopes;. Others by Sanfou ' o f '
, Old 1
SB1| I IU1 i fh? ,'Th<
€ ïiren from
to draiSi'Bhe
of Ho nduras
A new’ map
rica, e:scludii
ind;.New .Mexico, &c. California by Coftanzo,
. New ’Spain, by AlzatpJ in . Spanifii,
, 5 envkonX'qf Mexico may be Vfo'itnd in
, from a drawing By Boot; arij'engwe'Akmpldyed
lake. Ano ther in ieikvigero'. * The bay
. land environs; are publiflied apart by Faden.
map of’ the ISpani 1 dominidiis' in North Ame--‘
g'the WefSlndies; is' greatly wanted.
liecoiirfc m.uft?be had tpioH.wnteis, tjuj S being '
Gage, 2d edit. 1655» fol. or the French uanfiatioiijf
Amft 1721, 2 vols. izmo. The 6th, or Iaft vol. of
Gemelh Caren contains New Spain. This work is
now acknowledged by the beft judges to be genuine,
and fe, voyage, round the world has ceafed to attraft
much obfervation, as there would be little difficulty'
I m palling to, China, and thence to America and Eu-
rop _ There feems no doubt that Carer: performed -
this-circuit;' the fault is that the book is rather 'É
S °.f g fles> m > a work- of folid ^formation;
I Diere is a Spamfli hiftory of Cinaloa by -Perez de
T-oxas- For Louilinmi, faid (o be ceded b y’Spain to
I 1'ranee, the works of Du Pratz,.Charlevoix, &c. may
be ;cönfu ted. ' T:;e voyages of Pagès round the world,
and to tlie porth-and ffóuth pole, feem very doubtful,
Lag may .be judged, among o ^ S circumftances, from
F J * loriptian of Mexico. The beft 11 ecent account 1
of Mexico but unfortunately fhort, is given by ( ’’iappe
D A u te rp p h ^ D ondon
J. MijnomgAf'jFfk J^fnt eoin^i ynv Call-
i iri ’ A 5* ^ - * A . BPTAnrî tg
W M - Mad- 1801,. 8vo. Car. enas, .Hiftoria de la i
I 'Fioi-ida.- Alzedo’s Diftionai-y. .
t e g B M H 11 America,', B M l
Upp,er-Cana4a,. ifli: fBad»,-.\. j,j
H I S a >, 5
I.iff l-c . Native Tribes.
ètehé'.’
baragesÿ bpt the,figures .do notyreprofcnt.tfie’peoplc - -
and the .defcnptions are not of unimpeached accuracy
Charlevoix, Da Pratz.. ,G eenlai 1 by. Egéde or ■
Ç1“" “ -- , Travris by Carver, Hearne, and Mackenzie, ■
ice. Adairs Hiftorçr.iof the American -Indians aom-’
tains a feiy cuVious.fiias, diftorted by an abfurd fyfteïn. -
P N°rth ^iMncanSJhndrar Wejtijhdies. '
î J M H & ÏW > ;may be had'of muft-ÔX t.he ,-iflSijai! |
J he ^ f ft .5Ind'es 'ty 'J«ifriys, 16 fh. Reduced, 1
l Dictionary, . .
the',Pf#°!V’ <?f the-IVëft;Indies by Mr ' p* , ’ .. ; ' ' ' J _ .
Labat’s étoiles, SVO;.':
“ S i k f S k m the.! r
f are, âs ufual '
• a!1,;1.qa.!>fed. ' y', Among; thériÊ-hglijIK'; are Higpo’s Bkr
W aoes- ■ | M S ^ » t t® h é l an I
of the
plans, l»ondon, 1762, 4to.„ tie
prittih is that by Ed>vards. . RayiMfsl woj^: is funk «
Mr. -Eâwarÿlp^ve nC
móre truth tlian: He waa, cme 'of
i byV Ipecial mftniation. , i l t ç f p l tqWleàrncd
' ■ , ' .South A f r ic a .. ?
1 1 maP La ‘Cruz,, engraved' at Madrid 'f0r
royal preleuts, I77Ö. and :puBlif^| S London,. bvV
" v “’* >