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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    ~~ VER VER took it for the States°General. The inha- | 125 miles in length, and 40 in breadth, bitants are for the moft part Roman Catho- | and is a mountainous and barren country, lics, and it .is feated on the river Maefe, | though there is a good deal of gold and file wliere there is a commodious harbour, and | ver gotfrom thence, It was difcovered by on the other fide of it is Fort St, Michael, | Chriftopher Columbus, in 1502. Concep- which ferves for the defence of the town, | tion is the capital town. It is rs miles N. E. of Ruremond, and} * Vera-Paz, a province of N, Ameri- 35.N. W. of Juliers. Lon, 6.5. E. lat. 5:.|ca,in New-Spain; bounded on the N, by 25. N. Yucatan ; 3 on the E. by Hondoras, and the Venosa, atown of Italy, in the king- | province of Guatimala ; on the S. by So- dom of Naples, and in the Bafilicata, with | conufeo ; andonthe W. by Chiapa. It is a bifhop’s fee ; feated on a fertile plain at | about 38 miles in length, and as much in the foot of the Appennines, 12 miles N. breadth, and is full of dreadful mountains, W. of Acerenza, and 80 N. E. of Naples, | and thick forefts; and yet there are many Lon. 15. 57. E. lat. 40. 54. Nv fertile valleys, which feed a great number Venta-pe-Cruz, atown of S, Ame-j of horfes and mules, There are alfo many rica, in Terra Firma, and on the ifthmus of | towns and villages of the native Amerie Darien. Here the Spaniards embark their; cans, The capital town is of the fame merchandize, on the river Chagre, which | name, and has a bifhop’s fee, but it is in they fend from Panama to Porto-Bello. | confiderable. Itis 180 miles E. of Guati- Lon. 79. 0. W. lat. 9. 20. N. mala. Lon. 103.0. W. lat. 15. 6.N. * VentTapour, a caftle of France, in * VersBeriz, an ancient town of the Limofin, with the title of a duke and peer, | ifleof France, and in the duchy of Valois, erected in 1459. feated on the river Oife ; there have been VeENTIMiGtra. See VINTIMIGLT4, | five councils held here. Itis 10 miles Ne Vera, an ancient town of Spain, in the | E. of Senlis. Lon, 2. 51. E. lat. 50. 320 kingdem of Granada, and on the confines | N. of the kingdom of Murcia, with a bifhop’s Vercety, an ancient, handfome, ftrong, fee, anda harbour. It is feated on the fea-| and confiderable town of Italy, in Pied- fide, 95 miles N. E, of Almeria, and 5§ S. | mont, and capital of a lordfhip of the fame W.of Carthagena. Lon. 1. 11, W. lat.) name, with a bifhop’s fee. It was fore Verra-Cruz, a fea-port town of North-| the French became matters of it in 1704, America, in New-Spain, with a well fre- | they ruined moft of the works. The town- guented harbour, on the coaft of the gulph| houfe, the governor’s palace, and the hof- of Mexico, whofe entrance is defended by a} pital, are very handfome ftru@tures. It is fort. Here the Flotilla arrive annually from | feated at the confluence of the rivers Seffia Spain, to receive the produce of the gold! and Cerva, and is now defended by 14 re- and filver mines of Mexico, They hoid al gular baftions, acitadel, andacafile. Itis fair here annually, for the rich merchandifes| 10 miles N. W. of Cafal, and 35 N. E. of brought from China, and the E. Indies, as} Turin. Lon, 6. 14. E. lat. 45. 31. N. well as thofe of Europe, It is furrounded Vero-Careg, a promontory onthe W, with a wall of no great ftrength; and the} coaft of Africa, 45 miles N. W. of themouth air is fo unhealthy here, that when the fair} of the river Gambia. Lon. 17. 49. W. lat, is over, there are few inhabitants, befides| 15. 0. Mulattoes and Blacks. There are fuch{| Vern, the iflands of Cape de Verd ate crowds of Spaniards from all parts of Ame-| feated on the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 rica, that they ereét tents for them while | miles W. thereof. They are between the the fair lafts. The ufual garrifon confifts| 13th and roth degrees of latitude, and the only of a troop of 6ohorfe, and two regi-| principalare 10 in number, lying in a femi- ments of foot. This placeis famous on ac-| circle. Their names are St. Anthony, St, count of the landing of Ferdinando Cortez, | Vincent, St. Lucia, St. Nicholas, the ifle of with soe Spaniards, when he undertook | Sal, Bona Vifta, Mayo, St. Jago, Fuego, the conqueft of Mexico. It is 200 miles S.| and-Brava, which fee in their places. E. of Mexico. Lon, 102. 35, W. lat. 19. Verpwn, an ancient, ftrong, and confi- 1o. N. derable town of France, in Lorrain, and ca- VeraGua, a province of N, America, | pital of the Verdunois, with a bifhop’ 8 fee, in New- Spain ; bounded on the E. by that | the title of a principality, and a ftrong ci- of Cofta-Ricca ; ; onthe W. by that of Pa-|tadel, It was formerly a free and imperial mama; onthe E. by the Gulph of Panama ; city, divided ‘into the Upper and Lower andonthe S. by the S, Sea. It is about] towns, and is a place of importance, for