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General Geography:

EXPLAINING

The Nature and Properties of the EARTH;

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It's Figure, Magnitude, Motions, Situation, Contents, and Divifion into Land and Water, Mountains, Woods, Defarts, Lakes, Rivers, &c.

With particular Accounts of the different Appearances

of the Heavens in different Countries; the Seasons of the Year over all the Globe; the Tides of the Sea; Bays, Capes, Inlands, Rocks, Sand- Banks, and Shelves.

The State of the Atmosphere; the Nature of Exhalations; Winds, Storms, Tornados, &c.

The Origin of Springs, Mineral-Waters, Burning Mountains, Mines, &c.

The Uses and Making of Maps, Globes, and Sea-Charts. The Foundations of Dialling; the Art of Measuring Heights and Distances; the Art of Ship-Building, Navigation, and the Ways of Finding the LONGITUDE AT SEA.

Originally written in LATIN

By BERNHARD VARENIUS, M. D. Since Improved and Illuftrated

By Sir ISAAC NEWTON and Dr JURIN;
And now Tranflated into English; with additional Netes, Cop-
per-Plates, an Alphabetical Index, and other Improvements.
Particularly useful to Students in the Universities; Travellers,
Sailors, and all those who defire to be acquainted with Mixed
Mathematics, Geography, Aftronomy, and Navigation.
By Mr DUGDALE.

The whole Revised and Corrected by PETER SHAW, M. D.
The Second Edition, with large additions.
In TWO VOLUMES.

LONDON: Printed for STEPHEN AUSTEN, at the Angel and Bible, in St Paul's Church-Yard. 1734.

and I do recommend it as the most Useful

Book upon this Subject.

Chrift-Hofpital,

Dec. 14. 1733.

JAMES HODGSON,

Mafter of the Royal Mathematical
School; And Fellow of the
Royal Society,

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE.

HE Original of this Work was Re-printed at Cambridge in the Year 1672, for the Ufe of the Students in that University; and an Advertisement was given of

it, the Beginning of the Year following, in the Philofophical Tranfactions (a).

THE Dutch Edition being then out of Print, was carefully corrected, in many

(a) Phil. Tranfact. No. 91. Pag. 5172. BERNHARDI VARENII, M.D. Geographia Generalis; in qua Affectiones generales Telluris explicantur, fumma cura quam plurimis in Locis emendata, & 33 Schematibus novis, are in

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cifis, una cum Tabulis aliquot, quæ defiderabantur, aucta & illuftrata: ab IS A ACO NEWTON Mathef. Profeffore Lucafiano apud Cantabrigienfes. e Societate Regia, Cantab. 1672. in 8vo.

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