The general gazetteer, or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, ... and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; ... Embellished with nine maps / by R. Brookes.

  • Richard Brookes
Date:
1773
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Credit: The general gazetteer, or, compendious geographical dictionary. Containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, ... and promontories in the known world; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; ... Embellished with nine maps / by R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LP houfe, an hofpital, and a convent; its dif- triét comprehends two parifhes. Lon. 7. 1, W. lat. 40. 38. N. ALMENDVALAIO, a fma!l town of Eftra- madura, in Spain, near the borders of Por- tugal, 1g miles S. of Madrid. Lon, 4. 6. W. lat. 38. 36. N. ALMERIA, a fea-port town of Spain, in the kingdom of Granada, with a bifhop’s fee. {tis feated on the river Almoria, on the Mediterranean, 62 miles S, E. of Gra- nada. Lon. 3 20. W. lat. 36. 51. N. Aimissa, a fmall ftrong town at the mouth of the Cetina, in Dalmatia, famous for its piracies, ro miles E, of Spalatro, Lon. 39- 33- E. lat. 43. 56..N. kingdom of Granada, feated on the Medi- terranean, witha gcod harbour, defended by a ftrong caftle, 20 miles S. of Alhama. Lon. 3. 45. W. lat. 36. So. N. Atnwick,a thoroughfare town of Nor- thumberland, on the road to Berwick, with a market on Saturdays, and five fairs, on Palm-Sunday-eve, for fhoes, hats, and ped- lar’s ware ; on May 12, for horned catile, horfes and pedlar’s ware, and the laft Monday in July for horned cattle, horfes, and woollen and tinen-cloth ; on the firft Tuefday in O&cber for horned cattle, horfes, and pediar’s ware ; and on Saturday before Chriftmas, for fhoes, Jinen-cloth. It is a populous well-built town, with a town-houfe, where the quar- ter feffions and county-courts areheld, It has three gates, which remain almoft entire, and thew that it was formerly furrounded by awall It is defended by an old ftately Gothic caftie, the feat of the right hon. the ear! of Northumberland, being lately repair- ed and beautified by the prefent earl. It is 33 miles N. of Newcaftle, 29 S. of Ber- wick, and 310. N. by W. of London. Lon. 1. 10. W. lat. §5. 24. N. Arost, a town inthe Netherlands, in of Auttria, feated on the river Dender, 15 miles N, W. of Bruffels. Lon. 4. 10. E, lat. 49 55.N, ALPHINGTON, or AFFINGTON, a village in Devonthire, two miles S. of Exeter, with two fairs, on the firft Thurfday in Tune, for horned cattle, and October 16, for horfes and horned cattle. Aves, the highef mountains in Europe, feparating Italy from France and Germany. They begin on the fide of France towards the coaft of the Mediterranean, between the territory of Genoa, and county of Nice, and they terminate at the gulph of Carmero, which is part of the gulph of Venice, There ALS are few paffes over them, and thofe of dif- ficult accefs, which are the chief fecurity of Piedmont againft the attempts of France. Swifferland takes up a good part of thefe mountains, or rather the valleys between them, and for that reafon are fecure again{t the Germans and French, The famous Han- niba] attempted to crofs the Alps on the fide of Piedmont, in the winter feafon, when he invaded Italy, and loft moft of his ele- phants among them. Atpuxares, high mountains of Gra- nada, in Spain, near the coaft of the Medi- terranean. They are inhabited by the an- cient Morifcoes, who carefully cultivate the ground, which produces excellent wines and fruits. ALReEsFrorpy,a town in Hamphhire, with a market on Thurfdays, and a fair on June 24, for fheep, hoifes, and cows, 18 miles E..N. E. of Southampton, and 60 W.S. W. of London. Itis governed by a bailiff, has one church, about 20@ houfes, two princi- pal ftreets, which are large and broad, and a fmall manufacture of lindfeys. Lon. o. 48. W. lat. 51.26. N. Atsace, a province of France, bounded onthe E. by the Rhine, on the S, by Swiffer- land and the Franche Comté, on the W. by Lorrain, and on the N. by the Palatinate of the Rhine. It is a very fertile country, pafture, wood, flax, tobacco, pulfe, and— fruit-trees. There are mines of filver, copper and lead, as well as mineral waters, It is diverfified with pleafant hills, and mountains covered with forefts, in which are pine-trees 120 feet high. It is divided into the Upper and Lower, but Strafburg is the capital of both. The pre- vailing religion is the Roman Catholic, tho’ the Proreftants are allowed a free exercife of theirs. The language is the German, it having been part of that empire, and is ftill accounted fo by fome geographers. Axsen, an ifland of Denmark, in the Leffer Belt, or entrance into the Baltick Sea, between Slefwick and Funen. It has no- thing remarkable but two caftles, is 100 miles W. of Ccpenhagen, and fubjec& to Denmaik. AtsFi£Lp, atown of Germany, in the landgravate of Heffe Caffel ro miles N. W. : Marpurg, and 35, S. of Heffe- Caffel. Lon. . 6. E. lat.50.40 N. It is an ancient cna, and well-built, and the inhabitants were the fir ft of this country who embraced the reformation. A.sHeEpDa, a parith of Sweden, in the province of Smaland, where a gold-mine was difcovered in 1738. % * AusTON