The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; ... / originally compiled by R. Brookes.

Richard Brookes

Date:: 1826

Credit: The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; ... / originally compiled by R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$+ -Slefwick Gottorp. Many authors fup- pofe, that this {mall country was the abo- joining with the Saxons, when called in to aiit the Britons, in procefs of time be- came mafters of the country, and gave it the name which it now bears, England. _ ANGLES, a town in the dept. of He- rault. Angleftoraugh, in Limerick, Munfter. ° ANGLESEY, or ANGLESEA, ISLE OF; the moft weftern county of N. Wales; through which the packets regularly pats between Londonand Dublin. It was call- ed by the ancients Mona, and was the feat of the Druids, cf whom there feem to be fome monumental! remains, in the erections of huge ftones, fingly and collectively, in . circles, and one upon another, as at Stone- henge;. they are without any infcription, to fhew the time or oceafion of their erec- tion. Here are alfo found fome Roman and other antiquities. Anglefey is an ifland, being feparated from Carnarvon- fhire by a long and narrow ftrait, called Menai, or Menu, which, in fome places, however, is fordable at low water. It is about 24 miles iong and 14 broad; con- tains 74 parithes, and about 11,000 inha- bitants.” It is a fertile fpot, has fome va- luable quarries, and a very rich copper mine on Pary’s Mount. Anzalefey Abbeg, Camb. near Botfham. Angleton, Suflex, near Lewes. Augmering, £. and W. Suffex, two {mall villages on the Englith Channel, near Arundel. ANGOL, a pleafant, well-watered city of Chili, Gtuated on a very fertile plain, 125 miles Nvof Baldivia. Lat. 37..56.S. Jon. 72. 59. W. ANGOLA,/a fertile kingdom of Lower Guinea, or Congo, fituated between the _ rivers Dande and Coanza. It is bounded on the N. by Congo Proper, on the E. by Matamba, on the S. by Benguela, and.on the W. bythe Ocean. It produces Indian scorn, beans, oranges, lemons, and feveral other fruits. The country is divided among feveral petty princes ; the Porte. ‘guele have feveral fettlements on the coatt, andthe Enohih and Dutch yet cary on that infamous traffic, the flave-trade. Po- lygamy is allowed in this country, and they practife the initiatory rite of the He- brews. They. {eem to be an amiable and _ peaceful people; they are tall, and are _ reckoned to be elegant figures, and very handiome ; and from the fertility of the foil, and the fimplicity of their manners, they live very much at their eafe; itis _ puhaps from this circumftance, that thefe \ . .# thew an impatience of fatigue, and an in- dependency of {pirit, fuperior to thofe from the Gold Coaft, where the foil is barren, and where they have been accuftomed to hardfhip and labour. Angola is fituated between 9 and nearly 12 degrees S, lat. and between 10 and 20 E. lon. ANGoRA, or ANGOURA, anciently ANCYRA, a town of Natolia, in Afiatie Turkey, remarkable for it’s remains of antiquity, as infcriptions, pillars, ruins of temples, Sec. of porphyry and old marble. The cattle, which is as large as-a fmall town, and wel] inhabited, both by the Chriftians and Turks, is built of white marble, and ftone refembling porphyry 5 and throvghout the walls of the town, which are low, and thofe of the houfes, which are generally built of unburnt brick, antique fragments aye interfperfed. ‘The city of Angora is computed to have . 100,000 inhabitants in it, 90,000 of whom are Turks; and about 1000 of thefe are janizaries: Greeks, Armenians, &c. com- pofe the remaining 10,000. ‘Phe coun- try produces very good red wine, and they have excellent rice on fome of the rivers. They have the fineft breed of goats here in the world ; their hair or wool is quite white, and almoft as fine as filk 5 a great trade is carried on in this article, and the fineft ftuffs, efpecially camlets, are made of it. The exports of Angora to. Holland, France, and England, are about 1600 camel loads yearly. It is 212 miles SE. of Conttantinople. Lat. 39. 30. N. lon. | 73eGyE s ANGor, a fruitful kingdom of Upper Ethiopia, environed with fteep mountains. It has been wrefted from Abyflinia by the Gallas. ANGOULESME, a town of France in the dept. of Charente. It ftands on a mountain furrounded with rocks, the ri- ver Charente running at the foot of it. It is 20 miles SW. of Limoges, and 250 S. by W. of Paris. Lat. 45.39. N. lon. o. 14. E. ANcoumots, fatea provinceof France, of which Angoulefine wasthe capital, but now included in the dept. of Charente. It is hilly, but fertile, has good iron mines, and excellent paper manufactories. ANGRA, a diftri@, anda fea-port on — the S. fide ofthe ifland of Tercera. The. city of Angra is the metropolis of all the Azores. She harbour is good, and the town well built and populous ; it has the privilege of fending a deputy to the cortes, — The Englith and | He \ - pneree Y 4q fe$

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