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SUMMARY

O F

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY,

BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN;

CONTAINING,

An Account of the POLITICAL STATE, and Principal REVOLUTIONS,
of the most Illuftrious NATIONS in Ancient and Modern Times;
their MANNERS and CUSTOMS; the Local Situation of CITIES;
efpecially of fuch as have been distinguished by Memorable Events :

WITH

An Abridgment of the FABULOUS HISTORY OF MYTHOLOGY
of the GREEKS.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

An Historical Account of the Progrefs and Improvements of ASTRONOMY and
GEOGRAPHY, from the earliest Periods to the Time of Sir ISAAC NEWTON : .
Alfo, a brief Account of the Principles of the NEWTONIAN PHILOSO-
PHY, occafionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning
the GENERAL and PARTICULAR PROPERTIES of MATTER; the AIR, HEAT
and COLD, LIGHT, and its Effects; the Laws of MOTION; the PLANETARY
SYSTEM, &C.-With a fhort Description of the COMPONENT PARTS of the
TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the
more accurate Difcoveries of Modern Chemists.

Defigned chiefly to connect the Study of CLASSICAL LEARNING
with that of GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

UNIVERSITY

BY ALEXANDER ADAM, LL.D.

RECTOR OF THE HIGH SCHOOL OF EDINBURGH.

UF

CALIFORN

The THIRD EDITION, Corrected.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX, containing the LATIN NAMES of
the Principal COUNTRIES, CITIES, RIVERS, and MOUNTAINS,
mentioned in the GREEK and ROMAN CLASSICS;
With the MODERN NAMES fubjoined.

ILLUSTRATED WITH MAP S.

LONDON:

Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street,

For T. CADELL Jun. and W. DAVIES in the Strand,
and W. CREECH, at Edinburgh.

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