Excerpt from Geography Rectified, or a Description of the World, in All Its Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Islands, Cities, Towns, Seas, Rivers, Bayes, Capes, Ports, Their Ancient and Present Names, Inhabitants, Situations, Histories, Customs, Governments, Etc: As Also Their Commodities, Coins, Weights, and Measures, Compared With Those at London, Illustrated With Seventy Eight Maps Indufiry of one Age that can rectify and compleat the Ataxie of Geography; nor the work of any one man that of Coins, Weights, and Mafures; lo a well meaning eltay towards both, \i hope will find a Courteous Entertainment from the more judicious and unprejudiced Reader: For [have this, I will not lay to juliify but to excufe at leal't, my bold= nels and forwardnefs, that if I had known thele things to have been but tolerably performed by Others, I had neither troubled my Reader nor m'if-l'pent my own time about the Reetification of them; wherein, although I have again made ma ny Correetions and Amendments, yet that I have made good fome mens Expeetations, and freed them from all defeets and overfights, neither my Fears nor my Modeliy will permit me to be confi dent oi; (0 that knowing this Work which I have Undertaken, is liable to common Cenfure, I am bold to lhrowd it under your Protection, humbly imploring your kind Reception and Pardon for this my Prefumption for which, and for the excels of many favours, i {hall ever pray for theprofperity of You and Yours andlor ever acknowledge my felf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.