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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    ofirich-feathers, indigo, wax, tin, and! Jupiter Ammon was feated, fo diffieult of coral, The reigning religion is the Ma- | accefs on account of the burning fands. hometan, and there are fome Jews; bat} Barcztona, a handlome, large, rich, no chriftians. except the faves, and ftrang city of Spain, in Catalonia, of Barze, Sr. a town of New Bifcay, in| which it is the capital, witha bifhop’s fee, Mexico, near which are rich filver mines. | and agood harbour. It is feated on a fine It is 500 miles N. W of Mexico. Lon. 10g, | plain, along the fhore of the Mediterranean 55. W. lat. 26. 0. N. Sea, of an oblong form, containing about * BarBucins, a territory of Africa,| 15000 boufes, ‘It is defended by a fort, or over againft Cape Verd, citadel, called Mont Joy, which flandson a BarBERINO, a town of Italy, in Tuf-| rocky mountain, near a mile to the W. cany ; feated at the foot of the Apennine| of the town. It has double walls on the mountains, on the river Sieva, 12 miles S.}| N. and E. and the fea on the S. with a mole of Florence. Lon. 12. 15. E. lat. 43-| running out for the fecurity of thips. Itis 40. N. divided into the new and old town, feparat- * Barwerts, thename of the inhabitants} ed from each other by a wall and a ditch, of feveral valleys in Piedmont; particu-| There are feveral beautiful ftreets and larly thofe of Lucern, Angrana, Perufa, | fquares, which are very clean, and paved and St. Martin. with large flag-ftones. It is the featof a * Bargeztieux, a town of France, in] viceroy, and has a fine univerfity, befides Saintonge, with the title of a marquifate ;; an inguifition, It is adorned with fevera} it has a manufadture of linen cloth, and} handfome ftructures; and the cathedral lies 37 miles from Bourceaux. Lon. o. 5. | church,which is large, has two lofty towers. W. lat. 45. 23.N. The palace of the viceroy is much admired, # Barzonne, a town of France, inj and the arfenal contains arms for feveral Champagne, and generality of Chalons, thoufand men. There is an exchange where * BarBora,a maritime townof Africa, } the merchants meet, and ayard with docks in the kingdom of Adel, on the fireight of] to build galleys in. ‘The palace where the Babel Mandel. Theinhabitants are negroes, | nobility meetis built with large hewn ftones, and feed abundance of cattle. There is alfo} and ado:ned with marble pillars. It is a an ifland of this name in the Red Sea, to| place of great trade, and they have houfes the W. of the bay of Barbora. Lon. 47. 2, | where they make curious works in glafs. E. lat. 10. 45. N. The knives are likewife in great reputation, Bargupa, a Caribbee ifland in A-| as well as the blankets, which are greatly merica, belonging to the Englifh, about 20] ufed in France. The inhabitants are la- miles long, and 12 broad. The natives] borious and polite, and the women hand- apply themfelves chiefly to the breeding of | fome, lively, and free in their converfation. cattle, and farnifhing the neighbouring | It has been feveral times taken and retaken iflands with provifions. It is the property | by different nations, and, in 1705, Lord of the Codrington family, who have great| Peterborough got poffeffion of it, after a numbers of negroes, as well here as in| fiege of three weeks. In 1706, Philip i, Barbadoes. It is low land, but fruitful,|invefted it with a numerous army; but and pretty populous, the inhabitants being} Sir John Leake raifed the fiege. In 4714, addiéted to hufbandry, and fowing corn,| it was taken, after a long fiege, by the for which they have always a good market] French and Spaniards, when it was deprived in the fugar-iflands, as well as for their] of all its privileges, and the citadel built to cattle. Lon. 61. 3. W. lat. 13. 5. N. keep itin awe. It is feated ina very plea- * BarBusinsxKoy, a town of Afia, in} fant fruiiful country, watered by fprings the empire of Ruffia, feated on the eaftern | and rivulets, and full of viilages, 250 miles fhore of the Lake Baikal, at the mouth of | E.of Madrid. Lon. 2. 5.E. lat. 41.26.N. the fmall river Barbufigga. BARCELONETTA, a town of France, in * Barzy, atown of Germany, in Up-|the government of Dauphiny, and the per Saxony, and capital of a county of | capital ‘of the valley of its own name. It that name, witha caftle. Itis feated on} was ceded to France by the treaty of the river Elbe, and belongs to the prince | Utrecht, and is ten miles E. of Embrun, of Sax- Weiffenfels. Lon. 6, 40. E, Jat. 44. 26. N. Barca, alarge country of Africa, lying BarcELor, a town of Afia, in the on the S. coaft of the Mediterranean Sea, | Eaft-Indies, on the coaft of Malabar ; it is between Tripoli and Egypt. Itisa barren] a Dutch fa€tory, where they carry on a defart, and inhabited by none but wander- | confiderable trade in pepper: 130 miles S, ing Arabs, who are in fome fenfe fubje& to | of Goa, Lon. 74.15. E. lat.13 45. N- the Tu:ks, Here the famous temple of! Bar- /