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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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THis Veninfula is comprehended between the Mouths of Jndm andGanges^ and advances Northwards from the Eft^te of the Ma-gul to Ca^e Cormorin in the South, and on the Eaft and \^ eft it is waflied 4^4 ^^^ VeninJuU on this fide Gafi^es, wa(hed by the Ocean or Indian Sea. It is divided into two parts bythe Mountains of Gata^ which ftretch themfelves from the Northto the South with feveral fair Plains on the top, and occafion feve-ral feafons at the fame time •, for many times it is Winter on theone fide, and Summer on the other. It belongs to above fifty Kings,the potenteft of which by degrees fubdueth the reft. The Portugals,Englijh^ and HoVanderi^ have feveral places near the Sea, with For-trelTes for the fecurity of their Trade, which is generally in Spices^Jewels^ Pearls and Cotten-Linmn. The other places upon the Land areinhabited by the Natives^ whofe Petty Sovereigns not being ableto hinder the Settlement of the Europeans^ are glad to entertain Com-merce with them, and to crave t

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