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Excerpt from A New System of Geography, Vol. 4 of 6: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; And a Very Particular Description of Their Subdivisions and Dependencies; Their Cities and Tow Of the many charts extant of Germany, that by Homann published in the year 1741, and methodically illuminated according to Schatzs. principles: with the large charts executed on four sheets by Eisenschmid, and published also by Homann, are the most useful. But of how little service these and all the other charts hitherto extant of Germany are, will appear upon a stricter enquiry into their intrinsic value, from the excellent Mappa critica Germania:, executed with unspeakable labour by professor Mayer, and published in 1750, by Homann's heirs. In consequence of which we hitherto know the true situation and distance of about twenty places only, and Germany is, by the old geographers, extended about a whole degree too far to the east. It is therefore much to be wished, for the honour and benefit of Germany, that the patriotic proposal of the Cosmographical Society may be happily carried into execution; according to which each state of the Empire should suffer a Cabinet-Atlas to be taken of their territory by the German Surveying-office, which is under this name incorporated with the Cosmographical Society, and then permit a general chart to be engraved therefrom, which might be afterwards used for executing a chart of all Germany, But as it would require above half a century before a new and complete Atlas of Germany could be formed, even were die execution of this excellent and laudable proposal set about immediately, we muff, in the mean time, content ourselves with Homann's newest Atlas of Germany, which notwithstanding all its imperfections, is the best and most complete, nay, the only work of its kind. It contains all the charts of Germany which Homann has published from the first till the end of the year 1752, the number of which amounts to one hundred and twenty-five. The charts from the year 1753, are collected for a new volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.