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A compendious geographical dictionary containing a concise description of the most remarkable places ancient and modern, in Europe, Africa and America, interspersed with historical anecdotes to which are added a chronological table from the Creation to the present time; a montly list of all the fixed fairs in England and Wales and a table of the coins of various nations with their value in English money. To the whole is prefixed an introduction exhibiting a view of the Newtonian system of the planets, etc. The second edition, embellished with maps |