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

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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$ZAGER ae 0S other upon an eminence. There are feveral|nal has arms fufficient for 15,000 men. fine houfes, handfome churches, and a good | The inhabitants have made {uch a good ufe town-hall. It is 12 miles N. E. of Lucern, | of the ecclefiaftical benefices, which have and 42 S. E. of Bafil. Lon. 8, 20. E. lat. | been feeularized, that they have an hofpital 47.12. N, which maintains 650 poor people. The in- * Zuc, one of the cantons of Swiffer- | habitants are divided into 13 companies, and ; bounded on the E. and N. by that of |one of which confifts of the nobility, and Zurich; on the W, by that of Lucern ; and | the reft of tradefmen. There are alfo two the Free Provinces ; and on the S. by that of | councils, the great and the little: the firft Schwitz. Te inhabitants are RomanCa- | confifts of 162 members, who decide the tholics, and it is divided into three parts, | mott important affairs, and the fecond of ene of which is the town of Zug, and the | 50 fenators, and two burgomafters, who others the villages about it, which compre- | take care of affairs of fate, and determine bend three affemblies, namely, Bar, Mentzic, | caufes that are brought before them. They and Val Egeric. The government of this | have feveral manufa@tures, and fend part of canton is democratic, and the fovereignty | their merchandizes to Italy. A great many belongs to the town of Zug, andto the com- } French refugees are fettled here, who have munities without it, though this place has | built handfome houfes about the city. It is a particular magittrate. . |37 miles S. W. of Conftance, 40 S,. E. of * Zuitticuaw, a town of Germany, | Bafle, and so N. E. of Bern, Lon, 8. 45. in Silefia, in the province of Croffen, one | E. lat. 47. 28. N. mile from the river Locer, and 12 W.N, Zuricn, the canton of, is one of the 13 W. of Croffen, Lon. 15. 5. E, lat. 52.10. | cantons of Swifferland, and the firft in N. . rank, being about 50 miles in jength, and * ZuLpua, a town of Perfia, almoft| 30 in breadth. Itis bounded on the N. by clofe to Ifpahan, to which it is a fort of a | the Rhine, which feparates it from the can- fuburb, and feparated from it by the river | ton of Schaffhaufen ; on the_S, by that of Senderou. It is peopled with acolony of | Schwitz; on the E. by Thurgaw, and the Armenians, who were brought into Perfia | county of Tockenburg ; and on the W. by by Sha Abbas. It is an archbifbop’s fee. | the canton of Zug, and the Free Provinces, and contains feveral churches and mona- | The foil is fertile in corn, produces all forts fteries. | of fruits, and there are fore vineyards, 2s * ZuLpicu, a town of Germany, in | well as rich paftures. This carton is well the duchy of Juliers, belonging to the arch- | peopled, the inhabitants are very laborious, bithop of Cologne; feated on the river Naf- | and have a famous manufactory in crapes. f-!, 10 miles S. of Juliers, and 10 W. of | They were the firft that embraced the refor- Bonn. Lon, 6. 48. E. lat. 50. 32. N. | mation, and the famous reformer Zuinglius Zuricw, an ancient, large, and popue | was born here. = i Jous city of Swifferland, and capital of a Zuricn, the lake of, is one of the largett canton of the fame name ; feated at the N. | in Swifferland, being about 20 miles in exrremity of the lake Zurich, where the ri- | length, and 4 in breadth. The river Lim- ver Limmat proceeds from it, and feparates | mat runs through it lengthways, and at it into two unequal parts, which communi, | Ruperfchweil is a bridge over it 1,850 paccs cate by three bridges. It is one of-the beft | in length, ‘It is of great ufe for trade, and built towns in this country, but the ftreets | the ratheras itcommunicates with the Rhine, are narrow, andthe houfes high. The ca- * Zurita, a town of Spain, in Old thedral church was founded by Charlemagne, | Caftile, feated on the river Tayo, with an and is adorned with a ftatue of that empe- | old caftle, and a commandery of the order ror, The revenues‘of the rich college of the | of the Knights of Calatrava. It is very near canons now ferve to maintain the minifters | Toledo. Lon. 3.17. W. lat. ag. ge N. of the church, the profeffors, and ro canons, ZuTPHEN, a ftrong and confiderable who have preferved their ancient dignities, {town of the United Provinees, in Guelder- with their benefices ; but they are obliged | land, and capita! of a county of the fame to preach every day, or at lJeaft to reac aj} name. . It has a magnificent church, and is public leture in the college, where the lan- | furrourded with walls. It was ‘aken by guages, philofophy, and theclogy are] the French in 1672, who in 1674 dellvered taught. The convent for the daughters of | it up to the States General. Ir is feated at the nobility is changed into a college, where| the confluence of the rivers Berkel and 25 young -ftudents are educated, and pro- | Yffel, 9 miles S. E. of Deventer, and ¢5 E, vided with all neceffaries, The fortifica- | by S. of Amfterdam, Lon, 6. 13. E. lat, tions are in the modern tafte, and the arfe- | 52, 12. N. : vi 2 bo > ZUTPHEN, pean se eso 5A$